The Chicxulub crater, located off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, is one of the most significant geological sites on Earth. It marks the catastrophic impact of a massive asteroid or ...

From these exceptional images, a clearer picture of what happened 66 million years ago, when the crater formed, has emerged. For instance, the team now knows that the asteroid itself was larger ...

I think all craters are cool, I’m just going to start with that. I am very biased. Impact craters occur on every planetary body in our Solar System, no matter the size. By studying impact craters and ...

After this unusually large impact crater was confirmed ... [56,000 miles per hour] and impacted the Earth at the tip of the Yucatan platform," NASA explains of the asteroid, which unleashed ...

I think all craters are cool, I’m just going to start with that. I am very biased. Impact craters occur on every planetary body in our solar system, no matter the size. By studying impact ...

Impact craters older than 2 billion years may be ... NASA gravity anomaly map of the Chicxulub Crater area superimposed on the Yucatan Peninsula shows areas of mass concentrations (i.e., the ...

which also contains a mixture of ash from the impact and ocean sediment, within a sample taken from the crater’s peak ring. This sample likewise shows elevated levels of other elements commonly ...

The Chicxulub Impact Crater, located on the Yucatán Peninsula, represents one of Earth’s most significant impact structures and offers a unique window into catastrophic processes that reshaped ...

Researchers say they’ve discovered a large impact crater on the Atlantic seafloor that appears to be 66 million years old. That means whatever made this crater would have hit Earth around the ...

Ludovic Ferrière, an impact crater expert from the Natural History ... miles-wide Chicxulub meteor smashed into what’s now the Yucatan Peninsula. [Related: It was probably springtime when ...

I think all craters are cool, I’m just going to start with that. I am very biased. Impact craters occur on every planetary body in our Solar System, no matter the size. By studying impact ...