The second biggest is the Chicxulub crater on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, which is 180 km (112 miles) wide, and created by a 12 km (7.5-mile) asteroid around 66 million years ago. This is the ...

And because the crater appeared to be the same age as the global rock layer enriched with asteroid dust, researchers were fairly certain they had the story of the dinosaurs’ demise figured out.

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an ...

Geological clues suggest that the space rock that created Chicxulub crater was a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite. Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula and ...

This list contains some of my favorite impact craters down here on Earth. Barringer Crater (often called Meteor Crater), is located near the city of Winslow on Route 66 in Arizona, US, and was the ...

From these exceptional images, a clearer picture of what happened 66 million years ago, when the crater formed, has emerged. For instance, the team now knows that the asteroid itself was larger ...

If it’s confirmed as a crater, it would have crashed ... That die-off was caused when the miles-wide Chicxulub meteor smashed into what’s now the Yucatan Peninsula. [Related: It was probably ...

In their research, the team proposes three possible origins for the large crater: that it came from the same parent body as the Chicxulub asteroid, which broke up as it approached Earth ...

An artist's concept of an asteroid hitting Earth 66 million years ago. Illustration: Mark Garlick Sharp, three-dimensional seismic data of a seafloor crater off Guinea seems to confirm that a ...

This list contains some of my favourite impact craters down here on Earth. Barringer Crater (often called Meteor Crater), is located near the city of Winslow on Route 66 in Arizona, US ...