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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The claim is the Tanis creatures were killed and entombed on the actual day a giant asteroid struck Earth ... in the Gulf of Mexico, off the Yucatan Peninsula. That's some 3,000km away from ...

They found that cone-bearing plants called conifers and ferns were common before the huge asteroid struck what is now the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. But after the devastating impact, plant ...

A historical study of asteroid strikes shows that a kilometre-wide ... of an asteroid at least 10 kilometres wide hitting the Yucatan peninsula. In order to track the threat posed by an asteroid ...