In September 2025, an X post viewed over 1 million times claimed the world's biggest meteorite impact crater was in Mexico and included a video of the purported site. The video an ...
On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, and raised hopes that a space rock could be deflected from a collision ...
Its confirmation now places Silverpit alongside Mexico's Chicxulub crater — linked to the extinction of the dinosaurs — and the recently identified Nadir Crater off West Africa. "This exceptionally ...
The great mass extinctions -- The impact hypothesis -- The controversy -- In search of the crater -- The discovery of Chicxulub crater -- Scenario of a catastrophe -- Impacts and other extinctions -- ...
A large asteroid (~12 km in diameter) hit Earth 66 million years ago, likely causing the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Credit: Southwest Research Institute/Don Davis A large asteroid (~12 km in ...