From Mayan gods to dinosaur-killing asteroids, these are the lesser-known and crazy facts about cenotes you haven't heard ...

The eruption alert was raised Tuesday to the highest level and the danger zone where people are recommended to leave was ...

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 ...

The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after analyzing deeply drilled rock core from the impact site ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1993, scientists identified a massive impact crater in the United States that dwarfed the Grand Canyon. This colossal crater, hidden beneath the Earth's surface, has sparked significant ...

Its 150-kilometer-wide (93 miles) impact crater can be found in the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Somewhere in between are the impacts that don't leave craters on the Earth's surface but are ...

The most common features on the surfaces of most of the solar system’s rocky bodies are impact craters. Many measure hundreds of kilometers across and have remained relatively unchanged for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...