Impact breccia: Rock recovered from the peak ring of the Chicxulub Crater The effort to drill into the Chicxulub Crater off the coast of Mexico has been declared an outstanding success. A UK/US-led ...

When the Chicxulub asteroid slammed into Earth about 66 million years ago, it obliterated 80 percent of Earth's species, blasted out a crater 200 kilometers across, and signaled an abrupt end to the ...

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 ...

Scientists have determined the likely origin of the dinosaur-killing asteroid that brought about their extinction and killed three quarters of all life here on Earth. This asteroid is officially known ...

Scientists have addressed the 'uncomfortably close' occurrence of the Chicxulub impact in the Yucatan and the most voluminous phase of the Deccan Traps flood basalt eruptions in India. Specifically, ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Everyone knows of the asteroid that spelled the end of all non-avian dinosaurs—the ...

Some 66 million years ago, an errant asteroid wiped out three-quarters of all plant and animal species on Earth, most notably taking down the dinosaurs. That has long been the scientific consensus.