If you've ever visited the Riviera Maya (or did a little research into a potential trip), you probably know a thing or two ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Based on its analysis, the team confirmed the crater’s age and ruminated on the immediate aftermath of the impact. The dinosaurs—besides the ancestors of modern birds, of course—went extinct ...

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 ...