An curved arrow pointing right. For the first time in history, a team of international scientists are drilling into the center of the underwater crater created by the asteroid that wiped out the ...

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid ... 72,000kph. From new images of the ...

The asteroid left a crater over 150 kilometres wide, centred just off the coast of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico. It was named after Chicxulub Pueblo, a small town close to this point.

the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10–15 kilometers in diameter, struck the Yucatán Peninsula (in current-day Mexico), creating a 200-kilometer-wide impact crater. This impact triggered a ...