While this Route 66 attraction in Arizona flies under most passersby's radar, it offers an amazing chance to see an impact site caused by a meteor.

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, researchers ...

The Chicxulub crater, located off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, is one of the most significant geological sites on Earth. It marks the catastrophic impact of a massive asteroid or ...

Asteroid Day reminds us of space rocks' power. Some asteroids hit Earth hard. One exploded over Chelyabinsk in 2013, injuring ...

Dinosaurs Scientists find a new asteroid crater that may shed light on Dinosaurs' extinction Dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years ago after an asteroid plunged into the Gulf of Mexico ...

The asteroid that created the Chicxulub Crater — the impact that is said to have wiped out the dinosaurs — in the Gulf of Mexico is estimated to have been roughly 7.4-miles across and ...

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath Mexico’x Yucatan Peninsula. But new research has revealed that there were at ...

In comparison, the Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico, thought to have been left by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, is about 150km wide, said researchers from the ...