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.

Researchers think new evidence found in the Chicxulub Crater finally closes the case of what happened to the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

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 ...

Scientists may learn more clues about the extinction of dinosaurs after discovering a large asteroid crater off the coast of west Africa.

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

A massive meteor crater in northern Arizona continues to attract visitors and spark curiosity about space and science, especially on Asteroid Day.

The world’s largest asteroid impact structure could be buried deep in southern New South Wales in Australia, scientists suspect. The record for the largest known asteroid crater on Earth is ...

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 changed ...

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

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 ...

New research suggests that the asteroid responsible for forming Earth's largest impact crater was even bigger than researchers had previously estimated.

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