It was named after Chicxulub Pueblo, a small town close to this point. The crater was first discovered by scientists working for the Mexican state-owned oil company Pemex in the 1960s, ...

Some 66 million years after the Chicxulub asteroid impact kickstarted the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-T) extinction, scientists are still finding stunning evidence of its destruction. In 2021 ...