The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs left a massive buried crater off the Yucatan coast in Mexico. Known as the Chicxulub crater, this impact site marks a turning point in Earth's history.

A new study has analyzed asteroid dust recently discovered in the Chicxulub asteroid crater. The findings further support the theory that the dramatic impact was the cause of the mass extinction event ...

When a colossal space rock came crashing down 66 million years ago onto what is now the Yucatan Penninsula in Mexico, it triggered widespread changes on Earth and abruptly ended the reign of the ...

Off the coast of Mexico, the Chicxulub crater is all that remains of a defining moment in Earth's history. The hole spans 93 miles wide and bores 12 miles deep into the Earth. It was left by an ...

A previously undiscovered asteroid crater off the coast of West Africa may hold some answers about how Dinosaurs went extinct. Approximately 66 million years ago, a large asteroid, whose crater is ...

The day a massive asteroid hit our planet about 65 million years ago may have been the most chaotic day on Earth, and we’re not just talking about the mass extinction part. New research on the ...

When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it's not all doom and gloom. The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after ...