The Chicxulub Impact Crater, located on the Yucatán Peninsula, represents one of Earth’s most significant impact structures and offers a unique window into catastrophic processes that reshaped the ...

In September 2025, an X post viewed over 1 million times claimed the world's biggest meteorite impact crater was in Mexico and included a video of the purported site. The video an ...

Credit: José María Barres Manuel via Alamy The impact also generated a nearly mile-high tsunami ... that the water that ...

Scientists investigating the asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs after slamming into the Earth 66 million years ago have released a new study suggesting that it formed "beyond the orbit of Jupiter." The ...

The Chicxulub impact structure in Mexico is widely believed to be the site of the asteroid impact that allegedly killed the dinosaurs. As Sergio de Régules reports, scientists are now preparing to ...

Computer simulations have revealed that a vast region of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, may have behaved like a fluid during the formation of the Chicxulub impact crater. Gareth Collins, a ...

Rock layers deposited before and after the major dinosaur extinction event 65 million years ago are surprisingly different.

Around 66 million years ago, a 12-kilometre-wide asteroid travelling at 43,000 km/h crashed into Earth, triggering one of the ...

Artist's rendering of the Chicxulub asteroid entering Earth's atmosphere 66 million years ago, triggering events that caused a mass extermination. Roger Harris/Science Photo library via Getty Images ...

A team of scientists led by Universities Space Research Association’s David Kring at the Lunar and Planetary Institute is using observations of the Moon to further understand the impact on Earth that ...

The fish were found with hot glass in their gills, likely from flaming debris. The discovery of a fossilized fish may offer a glimpse into the day an asteroid hit the earth and wiped dinosaurs off the ...