The impact site of the second asteroid is called the Nadir crater, where rock was liquified and a tsunami launched into the ...

Further study, together with the magnetic and gravity data, confirmed the site as an impact event, named for the nearby ...

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 ...

D: Iron in the ocean (from the ocean circulation, from the impactor itself, and from erosion), along with nutrients (like ...

The end of non-avian dinosaur’s time on Earth is often depicted as one big, knockout blow delivered by the cataclysmic asteroid Chicxulub, which crashed off the coast of what is now the Yucatán ...

A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth. The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of ...

The bigger asteroid, commonly credited with causing the extinction of the dinosaurs, landed in what is now Mexico and left a 180km wide crater. Scientists are unable to say whether or not the ...

What intrigues scientists is the age of the crater: it coincides with that of Chicxulub, the asteroid linked to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Some estimate it could be a fragment of a larger ...