A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on ...

Scientists have discovered new evidence that it wasn't just one asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

The Nadir crater is the impact site of the second asteroid, liquifying the rock and launching a tsunami into the Atlantic ...

Detailed images of the 66-million-year-old Nadir Crater offer new insights into catastrophic asteroid impacts, showing ...

This is the feature that is now buried under sediments in the Gulf ... B612/Asteroid Day Mexico's famous sinkholes (cenotes) have formed in weakened limestone overlying the crater "It is ...

Scientists have found an extraordinary snapshot of the fallout from the asteroid impact that wiped ... object slammed into what is now the Gulf of Mexico, it would have hurled billions of tonnes ...

New images of an asteroid impact crater buried deep below ... age as the dinosaur-killing 200 km wide, Chicxulub impact crater in Mexico. The images have helped the researchers determine what ...

The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. And, until now, it had been assumed that the asteroid acted alone. This week, scientists at Scotland ...