When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it's not all doom and gloom. The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after ...

Some 65 million years ago, a big rock -- a very big rock -- slammed into the southwest portion of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, creating a 110- to 180-mile crater and triggering a biological ...

The day a massive asteroid hit our planet about 65 million years ago may have been the most chaotic day on Earth, and we’re not just talking about the mass extinction part. New research on the ...

A research team is now working to put a massive drill into the the Gulf of Mexico’s seafloor, with the goal of peeling back 65 million years of history. Their goal: to secure a nearly mile-deep core ...

Impact craters often have asymmetric shapes, which have been used to infer the direction and angle of impact. But pre-existing structural or topographic heterogeneities also play an important role in ...

Scientists probing a vast crater off Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula questioned a popular theory about dinosaurs on Monday, saying the collision that formed the crater happened too far back in time to have ...

One of the world's most famous asteroid craters, the Chicxulub crater, has been the subject of research for about twenty years. The asteroid impact that formed it probably put an end to the dinosaurs ...

A video accurately identifies the world largest meteorite impact crater as being in Mexico. The claim that the world's biggest impact crater is in Mexico was false. The video does not show the world's ...