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.

It was widely accepted that the Chicxulub meteorite impact was a major cause, as is evidenced by a vast 93 mile wide crater beneath the Yucatan Peninsula. This is possibly the best known of the five ...

The Chicxulub asteroid strike is well-known for ... New Evidence of a Second Asteroid Impact A lesser-known crater, the Nadir, was discovered off the coast of West Africa, leading ...