When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it's not all doom and gloom. The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after ...

Study co-author Sean Gulick, a research professor at The University of Texas at Austin, with a core sample from the Chicxulub crater. In 2016, Gulick co-led a scientific drilling expedition to sample ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The dinosaur-killing asteroid that struck Earth around 66 million years ago was huge — around 7 ...

The Chicxulub Impact Crater, located on the Yucatán Peninsula, represents one of Earth’s most significant impact structures and offers a unique window into catastrophic processes that reshaped the ...

Cores extracted from the impact crater revealed evidence of an ancient, life-nurturing hydrothermal system in the wake of the catastrophe. reading time 3 minutes Around 66 million years ago, an ...

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 -- ...