Here’s how it works. Sixty-six million years ago, a mountain-size asteroid slammed into Earth just off the coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, dooming the dinosaurs and leading to their ...

Mr. Okampo's speculation that the discovery of archaeologists is a trace of a meteorite collision has led many researchers to focus on the traces that remain on the Yucatan peninsula and an ...

In the case of Cabot Gun’s Big Bang pistol set, it took 4 billion years. That’s how long the Gibeon meteorite was flying through space—an arduous journey that made the cosmic rock a ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an ...

That was not the case about 18 million years later, when a much larger meteorite crashed into the Gulf of Mexico near the Yucatan. That was around 65 million years ago, and that impact triggered ...

If these objects avoid completely disintegrating and manage to reach the ground they are known as meteorites. Local reports suggest that the meteorite fell near Ciudad Victoria, the capital of the ...

The Mesozoic Era, often called “the Age of Dinosaurs”, ended 66 million years ago when a 6-mile-wide meteorite crashed ... on the crater’s edge on the Yucatan Peninsula.