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

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 ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by ... gases and fine dust blocked out the sun, causing an “impact winter” that lasted for 15 years. Sun-blocking dust ...

struck the Yucatán Peninsula (in current-day Mexico), creating a 200-kilometer-wide impact crater. This impact triggered a chain reaction of destructive events, including a rapid climate change ...

struck the Yucatán Peninsula (in current-day Mexico), creating a 200-kilometer-wide impact crater. This impact triggered a chain reaction of destructive events including a rapid climate change ...

Can America survive this meteor shower? Maybe — if we stay focused, get organized, show up, support good candidates, write ...

This 150-kilometer-wide crater lies just off the Yucatan peninsula. Scientists calculate ... Scientists have concluded that the impact that created this crater occurred 65 million years ago.

Bennu, which comes closest to Earth every six years at a distance of 299,000 km, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with ...

It was widely accepted that the Chicxulub meteorite impact was a major cause, as is evidenced by a vast 93 mile wide crater beneath the Yucatan Peninsula. This is possibly the best known of the five ...

MEXICO CITY— Mexican officials have issued fines to 26 industrial pig operations in the Yucatán Peninsula for violating environmental ... on a site of global importance where the Chicxulub impact ...