A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an ...

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath ...

This 150-kilometer-wide crater lies just off the Yucatan peninsula. Scientists calculate that it was blasted into Earth by a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid or comet traveling 30 kilometers per second ...

The outer rim (white arc) of the crater lies under the Yucatan Peninsula itself ... is traced by an arc of sinkholes Max Alexander/B612/Asteroid Day Mexico's famous sinkholes (cenotes) have ...

Earth’s long history has seen an uncountable number of species come and go – but one of the most famous extinction events we ...

Scientists have found an extraordinary snapshot of the fallout from the asteroid impact that ... The outer rim (white arc) of the crater lies partly under Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula A 12km-wide ...

For the first time in history, a team of international scientists are drilling into the center of the underwater crater created by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. Produced by Jenner Deal.