The Chicxulub crater, located off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, is one of the most significant geological sites on Earth. It marks the catastrophic impact of a massive asteroid or ...

The Chicxulub crater formed when a 7.5-mile-wide (12 kilometers) space rock traveling at around 27,000 mph (43,000 km/h) slammed into Earth, creating a roughly 124-mile-wide (200 km) bowl in what ...

NSF: For decades, scientists have accumulated ever-larger datasets that suggest an enormous space rock crashed into the ocean off the Yucatan Peninsula more than 65 million years ago, resulting in ...

A graphic showing how the environment in the Chicxulub crater following the impact could have spawned rich hydrothermal activity in the enclosed Gulf of Mexico. Credit: Sato et al.

The Chicxulub crater is only a piece of asteroid remnants that wiped out the dinosaurs and other species at the end of the Cretaceous era, roughly 66 million years ago.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Just off of the western coast of Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula lies the 12 mile deep, 6.2 mile wide Chicxulub crater.

Intriguingly, the crater, named "Nadir" after the nearby volcano Nadir Seamount, is of the same age as the Chicxulub impact caused by a huge asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous period, around 66 ...

Most scientists agree that the Chicxulub impactor — named after the community in modern-day Mexico near the 90-mile-wide (145 kilometers) crater carved by the rock — came from within our solar ...

Today, research on Chicxulub ranges far beyond the demise of the dinosaurs. In March this year, scientists met in the Yucatán city of Mérida, located near the heart of the crater, to fine-tune the ...

“Our simulations suggest this crater was caused by the collision of a 1,312-mile wide asteroid in 1,640-2,624-feet of water,” Dr. Veronica Bray of the University of Arizona said.

Intriguingly, the crater, named “Nadir” after the nearby volcano Nadir Seamount, is of the same age as the Chicxulub impact caused by a huge asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous period ...