Sixty six million years ago, just off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in what is now the North East coast of modern Mexico ...

Learn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects.

While the Chicxulub asteroid landed tens of millions of years ago, learning about this ancient space rock is important because it’s “part of a bigger picture of understanding the dynamic ...

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In the following decade, Chicxulub Crater was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico. And because the crater appeared to be the same age as the global rock layer enriched with asteroid dust, ...

The Chicxulub crater formed when a 7.5-mile-wide (12 kilometers) space rock traveling at around 27,000 mph (43,000 km/h) slammed into Earth, creating a roughly 124-mile-wide (200 km) bowl in what ...

Like Chicxulub, these particles are consistent with carbonaceous chondrite asteroids, implying that deep space meteorites originating from far beyond Jupiter likely traveled to Earth as far back ...

Fischer-Gödde led the new research, which was published in the peer-reviewed journal Science.. The asteroid left quite a mark. Today this impact zone is called the Chicxulub Crater, and is ...

Just off of the western coast of Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula lies the 12 mile deep, 6.2 mile wide Chicxulub crater.The 66 million year-old impact crater is the site where a massive asteroid ...

While the Chicxulub asteroid landed tens of millions of years ago, learning about this ancient space rock is important because it’s “part of a bigger picture of understanding the dynamic ...

Chicxulub crater 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 ...

A study reveals the chemical makeup of the Chicxulub asteroid that collided with Earth and resulted in the extinction of nearly all dinosaurs 66 million years ago. CNN values your feedback 1.