One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the ...

About 35 million years ago, an asteroid struck the ocean off the East Coast of North America, leaving behind a massive impact ...

The Chicxulub impactor, as it is called, was somewhere between 10 and 15 kilometres in diameter. The collision was devastating: rocks from deep within Earth’s crust were raised 25 kilometres ...

Approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10–15 kilometers in diameter, struck the Yucatán Peninsula (in current-day Mexico), creating a 200-kilometer-wide ...