AUSTIN, Texas — The most detailed three-dimensional seismic images yet of the Chicxulub crater, a mostly submerged and buried impact crater on the Mexico coast, may modify a theory explaining the ...

The cataclysmic meteorite impact that wiped the dinosaurs also inadvertently forged a subterranean haven for life, sustaining it for an astonishing eight million years, a new study reveals.

The newly discovered Nadir crater off the coast of Africa dates to the same time as the famous Chicxulub impact, which killed off most life on Earth. Reading time 3 minutes Researchers say they’ve ...

The Chicxulub impact structure in Mexico is widely believed to be the site of the asteroid impact that allegedly killed the dinosaurs. As Sergio de Régules reports, scientists are now preparing to ...

Scientists have long believed the Chicxulub asteroid smacked Earth near the Gulf of Mexico, causing about a 100-million-megaton blast devastating enough to erase the dinosaurs from Earth. That burst ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath Mexico'x ...

The 5.3-mile-wide crater is now confirmed to be 66 million years old, suggesting that the impact of at least two giant space rocks preceded the mass extinction of dinosaurs. Reading time 3 minutes ...

The ocean floor is famously less explored than the surface of Mars. And when our team of scientists recently mapped the seabed, and ancient sediments beneath, we discovered what looks like an asteroid ...