It is buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico and has been identified as one of the largest impact craters on the planet. Within the crater, samples of rock were taken, and their ...

whose crater lies partly beneath Mexico’x Yucatan Peninsula. But new research has revealed that there were at least two dinosaur-killing asteroids. The impact crater of the second one lies ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula ... Plumes of sulphur-based gases and fine dust blocked out the sun, causing an “impact winter” that lasted for 15 years. Sun-blocking dust ...

This 150-kilometer-wide crater lies just off the Yucatan peninsula ... Scientists have concluded that the impact that created this crater occurred 65 million years ago. The date corresponds ...

Curtin University researchers have discovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly redefine our understanding of the origins of life and how our planet was ...