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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A massive crater on Mars may be all that’s left of an asteroid that slammed into the planet 3.4 billion years ago, triggering a devastating megatsunami. The 200-meter-tall waves flooded thousands of ...