Artwork: The impact hit with the energy equivalent ... project to drill into what remains of the impactor's crater under the Gulf of Mexico. She and colleagues spent several weeks retrieving ...

New images of an asteroid impact crater buried deep ... That's the same age as the dinosaur-killing 200 km wide, Chicxulub impact crater in Mexico. The images have helped the researchers determine ...

This is the feature that is now buried under sediments in the Gulf of Mexico, close to the port of Chicxulub. The impact description - scientists call it the dynamic collapse model of crater ...

They cannot date the event exactly, or say whether it came before or after the asteroid which left the 180km-wide Chicxulub crater in Mexico ... never been an asteroid impact of this size in ...

In 1978, geophysicist Glen Penfield noticed a series of unusual features while poring over a magnetic survey map of the Gulf of Mexico ... was suggestive of an impact crater.

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created ... causing an “impact winter” that lasted for 15 years. Sun-blocking dust from asteroid impact drove the dinosaur ...

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico ... that the crater was, in fact, the result of an asteroid impact and ...

The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. And, until now, it had been assumed that the asteroid acted alone. This week, scientists at Scotland ...

The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. And, until now, it had been assumed that the asteroid acted alone. This week, scientists at Scotland ...