It is buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico and has been identified as one of the largest impact craters on the planet. Within the crater, samples of rock were taken, and their ...

whose crater lies partly beneath Mexico’x Yucatan Peninsula. But new research has revealed that there were at least two ...

The long, asymmetrical sides of the ripples slope south-southeast, pointing back to their source in the Chicxulub impact crater at the tip of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. About 30 miles (45 km) further ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula ... Plumes of sulphur-based gases and fine dust blocked out the sun, causing an “impact winter” that lasted for 15 years. Sun-blocking dust ...

This 150-kilometer-wide crater lies just off the Yucatan peninsula ... Scientists have concluded that the impact that created this crater occurred 65 million years ago. The date corresponds ...

Impact craters this old have the potential to tell us not only how Earth evolved but how the earliest impacts created the conditions for life to emerge. Long before the asteroid that ended the ...

One of the most famous of these 200 or so impact craters is the 200 km diameter Chicxulub impact crater in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. This impact wiped out 65 per cent of all species on Earth, ...