The second biggest is the Chicxulub crater on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, which is 180 km (112 miles) wide, and created by a ...

a massive asteroid slammed into Earth. The Chicxulub impactor, as it is called, famously wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs ...

The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. And, until now, it had been assumed that the asteroid acted alone. This week, scientists at Scotland ...

Harvard researchers found that when a meteorite nicknamed S2 paid a visit to our planet 3 billion years ago, it may have helped life flourish.

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath Mexico’x Yucatan Peninsula. But new research has revealed that there were at ...

Striking along the coast of West Africa, this asteroid—which left behind the nine- kilometer-wide Nadir crater—would ... of what is now the Yucatán Peninsula. However, new evidence from ...

Not one but two asteroids might have pushed the dinosaurs to extinction. A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment has confirmed that the 8.5-km-wide depression off the coast of ...

Scientists said that the diameter of the meteorite was about ... time as the 180-kilometer-long Chicxulub crater off the coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Chikhulub was formed after a 10 ...

The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period caused a global calamity that ...

The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. And, until now, it had been assumed that the asteroid acted alone. This week, scientists at Scotland ...