Off the coast of Mexico, the Chicxulub crater is all that remains of a defining moment in Earth's history. The hole spans 93 miles wide and bores 12 miles deep into the Earth. It was left by an ...

66 million years ago, a large asteroid crashed into Earth near Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, sparking a frigid global winter that led to the mass extinction of dinosaurs who had reigned over the planet ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The main culprit behind the end of the dinosaurs is now widely accepted to be an extraterrestrial ...

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 ...

The asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago left behind more than a legacy of mass destruction. That impact also sent superheated seawater swirling through the crust below for more than ...

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid slammed into Earth so hard it essentially turned solid ground to liquid. This is according to a new study on an unusual ring of smashed rocks beneath Mexico’s ...

The main culprit behind the end of the dinosaurs is now widely accepted to be an extraterrestrial collision of epic proportions, one that left behind the gargantuan crater of Chicxulub at Mexico.