One of the most famous of these 200 or so impact craters is the 200 km-diameter Chicxulub impact crater in the Yucatan ...

whose crater lies partly beneath Mexico’x Yucatan Peninsula. But new research has revealed that there were at least two ...

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 ...

Maybe you've heard about the asteroid that killed all the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The impact caused the Chicxulub ...

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 ...

The affects of a meteorite’s impact should not be underestimated. The discovery of the world’s oldest known crater caused by a meteorite could change how we think about the origins of life on Earth as ...

The authors say findings could provide a new line of study into Earth's history and the early origins of life on the planet. What could be the world's oldest-known impact crater has been ...

In a study, appearing in Nature Communications, Katarina Rodiouchkina and colleagues used sulfur concentrations and isotopic compositions from new drill cores of impact rocks within the crater ...

Lonar, Dhala & Ramgarh—and their role in shaping the Deccan Plateau. Discover cosmic collisions' lasting effects on India's ...