The asteroid left a crater over 150 kilometres wide, centred just off the coast of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico. It was named after Chicxulub Pueblo, a small town close to this point.

One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the ...

A study published today (April 1) in PNAS describes evidence from a fossil site in North Dakota that researchers say tells the tale of what happened on the day of the Chicxulub asteroid ... near the ...

It was widely accepted that the Chicxulub meteorite impact was a major cause, as is evidenced by a vast 93 mile wide crater beneath the Yucatan Peninsula ... and what was then the ‘proto’ Gulf of ...

“El objetivo de la exploración es recuperar una sección transversal de tierra en el centro del cráter Chicxulub en la Península de Yucatán en México”, explicó Sean Gulick, investigador ...

MEXICO CITY— Mexican officials have issued fines to 26 ... located in Homún on a site of global importance where the Chicxulub impact crater hit Earth 65 million years ago and drove the extinction of ...