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 ...

That asteroid killed 70% of life on Earth and left a 120-mile-wide crater on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Asteroid 2024 YR is paltry in comparison to Halley’s Comet and the Chicxulub asteroid, but ...

It's official: The Gulf of Mexico is no more (at least in the United States). Employees at the federal Board on Geographic Names have formally changed the name to the Gulf of America per one of ...

It's official: The Gulf of Mexico is no more (at least in the United States, anyway). Workers at the federal Board on Geographic Names have formally changed the name to the Gulf of America per one ...

The announcement came on Sunday, Feb. 9. On his Inauguration Day Jan. 20, Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Google Maps posted on X it ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

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President Trump officially declared Sunday “Gulf of America Day” in celebration of his recent executive order to rename the body of water — signing the proclamation while flying over it en ...

Sen. Jack Reed in a social media post Saturday needled President Donald Trump and his decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico. "Since Trump is busy unilaterally renaming bodies of water down south ...

He explained that his office was calling all map providers, including Google, to ensure the Gulf of Mexico was rechristened on their services by Sunday afternoon. Google previously said that once ...