This is the 9-km wide (5-mile) Nadir Crater. It’s a massive impact crater, buried 300 meters beneath the Atlantic ocean floor. According to Heriot-Watt University researchers, the images confirm ...

But it turns out, Chicxulub may not have acted alone. The Nadir Crater. Buried beneath the Atlantic Ocean, deep off the coast of West Africa, lies the remains of another catastrophic event — a 9 ...

However, in 1991, scientists found that the Chicxulub crater was the right age to have been formed by a massive asteroid strike coinciding with the demise of the dinosaurs.

The Chicxulub crater formed when a 7.5-mile-wide (12 kilometers) space rock traveling at around 27,000 mph (43,000 km/h) slammed into Earth, creating a roughly 124-mile-wide (200 km) bowl in what ...

Named after a nearby town, Chicxulub crater is located just offshore. New evidence confirms the site is almost undoubtedly the epicenter of the dinosaurs’ demise. The University of Texas at ...

Geological clues suggest that the space rock that created Chicxulub crater was a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite. Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula and ...

The asteroid that created the Chicxulub Crater — the impact that is said to have wiped out the dinosaurs — in the Gulf of Mexico is estimated to have been roughly 7.4-miles across and changed ...

SEE ALSO: NASA scientist viewed first Voyager images. What he saw gave him chills. ... Today this impact zone is called the Chicxulub Crater, and is largely buried beneath the Yucatan Peninsula.

The crater has eroded extensively in the intervening 2 billion years, so earlier geologic evidence supported the “15×15” estimation. But the problem is that the crater is now understood to be ...

Illustration of the Chicxulub crater, shortly after its formation. This crater was formed 66 million years ago, off the coast of present-day Mexico, following the impact of an asteroid 10-14 ...

NASA Landsat and SRTM images of the Yucatán, indicating the rim of the Chicxulub crater. Urban areas are white, and magenta and green areas indicate vegetation. Image: NASA/JPL.

Close examination of the rock layers stretching down hundreds of feet revealed that the crater was already packed with debris within the first 24 hours, with an estimated 425 feet of material ...