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.

YR4, an asteroid that currently has a more than 1 percent chance to hit the Earth in 2032, catching the attention of ...

A 196-foot-wide asteroid has a 1-in-83 chance of striking Earth in 2032. An expert tells Space.com where this asteroid could impact our planet and what level of destruction it could cause.

An curved arrow pointing right. For the first time in history, a team of international scientists are drilling into the center of the underwater crater created by the asteroid that wiped out the ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the theory goes, a 6-mile-wide meteor plunged into Earth near modern-day Chicxulub on the Yucatan ... in the K-Pg layer but not in the impact crater, suggesting that the impact launched sulfur ...

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 ...

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 ...

"But we don't have exact proof, and perhaps we never will," he added. The impact site, the Chicxulub Crater, is 200 km across. The scientists say earthquakes and tsunamis killed every living thing ...

Scientists have long accepted that an asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs. But there are myriad theories as to what, precisely, happened ...