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

Photograph by Robert Clark Roughly 30 miles to the east of this mangrove swamp sits Chicxulub Puerto, a calm seaside village at the center of an immense impact crater that stretches into the Gulf ...

"These large asteroid impacts ... smaller than the Chicxulub impactor that wiped most dinosaurs off the face of our planet, punched out a nearly 60-mile-wide (100 km) crater in a remote region ...

Previously, scientists attributed the extinction of the dinosaurs to a massive asteroid hitting Earth 66 million years ago. Specifically, the Chicxulub crater in Mexico was considered the main ...

Scientists have uncovered over 200 dinosaur footprints belonging to giant herbivores and ferocious predators buried in the floor of an Oxfordshire quarry.

66 million years ago, a massive asteroid struck Earth, leading to the extinction of the dinosaurs and many other species. The impact, which created the Chicxulub Crater in present-day Mexico, was a ...

The rocks, both several miles wide, hit Earth about 25,000 years apart, leaving the 60-mile (100km) Popigai crater ... Chicxulub impact likely led to a major extinction event, we were curious to ...

Did you know a city in Kentucky was built entirely inside a crater created by a meteorite?The history of Middlesboro is out of this world. According to the Kentucky Historical Society, sometime ...

Asawa is the latest artist to lend their name to a planetary feature via the IAU naming committee. Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images My readers are coming from ...

Well, look at that. The Perseverance rover has clambered out of the crater that’s been its cradle for nearly four years on the Red Planet. Perseverance landed on Mars in February 2021.