This is the feature that is now buried under sediments in the Gulf of Mexico, close to the port of Chicxulub. The impact description - scientists call it the dynamic collapse model of crater ...

Scientists have found an extraordinary snapshot of the fallout from the asteroid impact that wiped ... fallout material directly to the so-called Chicxulub impact site in the Gulf.

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. Over the years ...

For many, the matter is settled – and there’s a huge crater down in Mexico to act as evidence. However, a minority of experts ...

This 150-kilometer-wide crater lies just off the Yucatan peninsula. Scientists calculate that it was blasted into Earth by a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid or comet traveling 30 kilometers per second ...

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 ...

“We found that the impact of an asteroid like the one at Chicxulub is an infrequent and unique event in geological time,” said Professor Dr Carsten Münker, co-author of the study. “The fate ...