While this Route 66 attraction in Arizona flies under most passersby's radar, it offers an amazing chance to see an impact ...

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It would take another 10 years before samples from the Chicxulub crater were studied by Penfield. When he did, he found an unusually large amount of shocked quartz, as well as impact melt spherules.

When a giant asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago near what is now the town of Chicxulub, the impact created a massive depression and caused fracturing of the porous limestone bedrock.

A study reveals the chemical makeup of the Chicxulub asteroid that collided with Earth and resulted in the extinction of nearly all dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

A study reveals the chemical makeup of the Chicxulub asteroid that collided with Earth and resulted in the extinction of nearly all dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

About 66 million years ago, a 10-km-wide asteroid crashed into Earth near the site of the small town of Chicxulub in what is now Mexico. The impact unleashed an incredible amount of climate-changing ...

Some 66 million years ago, an asteroid with a diameter of about six miles crashed off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The Chicxulub asteroid—named for the shoreside town near the ...

The Chicxulub impactor, a massive asteroid that collided with Earth in what is now the Gulf of Mexico, is thought to have played a key role in this extinction event.

Cracking a 66-million-year-old cold case. To try and provide a better idea of what type of asteroid the Chicxulub space rock was, the team took samples from rocks in Spain, Italy and Denmark dated to ...