A seismic survey revealed that the water that formed the ripples came from the direction of the Chicxulub crater. "The energy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

A city-size asteroid impacted the Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago, creating the 200km-wide Chicxulub crater. This impact caused widespread environmental devastation, including global sunlight ...

Sixty-five million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into Earth, causing tsunamis, earthquakes, fires, a global winter, and the end of the age of the dinosaurs. But what if the asteroid had glided ...

An expedition eighteen miles off the coast of Mexico is drilling into the seafloor to probe the crater created by the Chicxulub asteroid, the space rock that led to the dinosaur’s demise. Just a few ...

Recent research has provided new insights into the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago, causing a mass extinction event that led to the end of the dinosaurs. Scientists have now identified ...

In seeking the origin story of the Chicxulub impactor, scientists hope to also unlock secrets about the origin of life itself. By Becky Ferreira The first cave art. The dawn of agriculture. While ...

Tiny flecks of white dot a section of crumbly rocks along Texas's Brazos River. To a casual observer, the grains may seem like unremarkable bits of sand, but within their oddball shapes lie clues to ...

Sometimes it feels like the sky is falling and the oceans are boiling, but when you start to get stressed out, remember the dinosaurs had it worse than you do: A new paper in Science Advances adds ...