The Chicxulub crater, located off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, is one of the most significant geological sites on Earth. It marks the catastrophic impact of a massive asteroid or ...

Off the coast of Mexico, the Chicxulub crater is all that remains of a defining moment in Earth's history. The hole spans 93 miles wide and bores 12 miles deep into the Earth. It was left by an ...

Mexico’s Chicxulub crater, named for a tiny town nearby, looks strikingly similar to Schrödinger crater on the moon’s far side, shown here in a Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter gravity map. The impact ...

Some have suggested that the crater, which is buried under more than 1,000 feet of sediment, could have formed before or after the Chicxulub event, making its role in this cataclysmic period unclear.

The first results of a recent drilling expedition at Chicxulub crater -- one of the only known craters on Earth with a well-preserved 'peak ring' -- reveal how it collapsed to form a complex crater.

Chicxulub Crater is an ancient impact crater buried underneath the Yucatan peninsula, with its center located approximately underneath the town of Chicxulub, Yucatan, Mexico. Investigations ...

A sketch of the Chicxulub crater under the sea with the deep seafloor showing the different types of observed bioturbations (Ichnogenera), with photos from the studied cores. Courtesy Francisco J ...

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The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact that Killed the Dinosaurs Also Created Ocean Eruptions on the Other Side of the World Published Feb 08, 2018 at 1:04 PM EST An artist’s impression of an asteroid ...