The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact - The Day the Dinosaurs Died One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the ...

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 ...

The mountain-size asteroid struck South America and left a crater off the coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, which measured 93 miles wide and 12 miles deep. Scientists believe it created ...

That explosion, known as the Tierra Blanca Joven, sent a volcanic plume fifty kilometers into the air, to the outer edge of ...

Theories range from volcanic eruptions during the breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea to asteroid impacts—though no crater has yet been found. This is the one that famously ended the dinosaurs ...

The most likely explanation is an asteroid measuring 6 to 10 miles across landing on the Yucatan Peninsula in southeast Mexico forming what we now call the Chicxulub crater. This giant impact (the ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a city-sized asteroid slammed into Earth near today’s Yucatán Peninsula, blasting out a huge crater named Chicxulub and unleashing chaos across the planet. Firestorms ...

As if we did not already have enough to worry about, astronomers recently discovered an asteroid that may hit the Earth. Based on observations of its orbit, Asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

via Wikimedia Commons The impact of the asteroid left a lasting mark on Earth in the form of the Chicxulub Crater, largely buried beneath the Yucatan Peninsula. This crater serves as a reminder of the ...