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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Asteroid that killed the ... When a colossal space rock came crashing down 66 million years ago onto what is now the Yucatan Penninsula in Mexico, ... a location now known as the Chicxulub crater.

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

However, it is smaller than the Chicxulub crater buried under Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, which measures around 112 miles (180 km) in diameter and was left by the dinosaur-killing asteroid that ...

New images of an asteroid impact crater buried deep below the floor of the Atlantic Ocean have been published by researchers at Heriot-Watt University. The images confirm the 9km Nadir Crater ...