When a meteorite with the mass of four Mount Everests hit Earth 3.2 billion years ago, it caused global chaos and provided an ...

Sara is moving over the Yucatan Peninsula and has weakened to a Tropical Depression Sunday. NFL News: Mike Tomlin sends ...

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 ...

Scientists have found an extraordinary snapshot of the fallout from the asteroid impact that wiped ... of the crater lies partly under Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula A 12km-wide object dug a hole ...

Peter Schulte of the University of Erlangen and Nuremberg said evidence turned up by scientists in recent years indicated the impact on what is now the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico was the cause.

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 ...

The outer rim (white arc) of the crater lies under the Yucatan Peninsula itself ... is traced by an arc of sinkholes Max Alexander/B612/Asteroid Day Mexico's famous sinkholes (cenotes) have ...

This 150-kilometer-wide crater lies just off the Yucatan peninsula. Scientists calculate that it was blasted into Earth by a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid or comet traveling 30 kilometers per second ...

A gigantic space rock that slammed into Earth more than three billion years ago grievously wounded the biosphere—and then helped it heal ...

The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period caused a global calamity that doomed the dinosaurs and many other life forms, but that was far from the ...