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.

the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10-15 kilometer in diameter, struck the Yucatán Peninsula (in current-day Mexico), creating a 200-kilometer-wide impact crater. This impact triggered a ...

Today this impact zone is called the Chicxulub Crater, and is largely buried beneath ... and progressive technological advancements made the latest observations possible, Fischer-Gödde explained.

It’s thought that the huge Chicxulub crater in the Gulf of Mexico was ... so more detailed observations can be made—and possibly even future exploration missions prepared.

The authors estimated that the impact that formed the initial crater was equivalent to the one that formed the Chicxulub crater in the Gulf of Mexico. That event is widely considered to have played a ...

A giant crater smoldered on what would become known as the Yucatán Peninsula. Whether or not the asteroid or comet that carved the Chicxulub crater caused the extinction of more than half the ...

the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10–15 kilometers in diameter, struck the Yucatán Peninsula (in current-day Mexico), creating a 200-kilometer-wide impact crater. This impact triggered a ...

66 million years ago an asteroid hit the planet. Now an expedition is underway to drill 1500m into the crater it created - the Chicxulub asteroid impact crater, aiming to unearthing the secrets that ...

Dr Kring's previous work has linked the buried Chicxulub Crater to a mass extinction event 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period, which wiped out most dinosaurs. He said ...