When a large dinosaur-killing asteroid struck the Earth approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub crater was formed. It is buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico and has been ...

The asteroid left a crater over 150 kilometres wide, centred just off the coast of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico. It was named after Chicxulub Pueblo, a small town close to this point.

One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the ...

Some 66 million years after the Chicxulub asteroid impact kickstarted ... a six-mile-wide asteroid smashed down just north of what is now Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. This sudden impact created ...

An curved arrow pointing right. For the first time in history, a team of international scientists are drilling into the center of the underwater crater created by the asteroid that wiped out the ...

The Princeton model shows (at left) that the structure of the Earth's surface at the time of the meteorite impact that caused the Chicxulub crater in Mexico would have placed the Deccan Traps in ...

En el marco de la Feria Internacional de la Lectura Yucatán (Filey), el autor e ilustrador Bernardo Fernández, mejor conocido como BEF, presentó su más reciente novela gráfica, “Rex Régum”.

A study published today (April 1) in PNAS describes evidence from a fossil site in North Dakota that researchers say tells the tale of what happened on the day of the Chicxulub asteroid ... near the ...

El impactador de Chicxulub, como se lo conoce, fue un asteroide o cometa que se precipitó y dejó un cráter frente a la costa de México que se extiende a lo largo de 150 kilómetros y tiene una ...

Estos parajes son los megacristales de selenita de la mina de Naica, en Chihuahua; el volcán Paricutín, en Michoacán; tsunamita de Chicxulub y el límite cretácico-Paleoceno, en Yucatán ...