The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula.

The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life ...

Chilling animations depict the apocalyptic impact that “city-killer” asteroid YR4 2024 could ... alongside a video simulation of the rock’s potential impact. He specifically calculated ...

Cores extracted from the impact crater revealed evidence of an ancient, life-nurturing hydrothermal system in the wake of the ...

"The long, narrow shape of the crater and the pattern of regional deformation are signs that the asteroid struck at an extremely oblique (shallow) angle." According to the space agency, the impact ...

The Earth bears geologic evidence of past cosmic impacts, such as the 125-mile-wide Chixculub Crater in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, which was the likely impact site of the 6-mile-wide asteroid ...

More recently, an invitation landed in my inbox: a chance to tour the crater — the “world’s best-preserved meteor impact site” — with a former astronaut and the team from the Asteroid ...