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 ...

Meteor craters are incredible reminders of the powerful forces of nature and the history of our planet. These massive impact ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 ...

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 ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago The Chicxulub impactor At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...