October 26, 2024 The Popocatepetl volcano has erupted with unprecedented fury, sending a colossal ash cloud 9.1 km (30,000 ...

When everything had settled down, a crater roughly 200km wide and 1km deep would remain. This is the feature that is now buried under sediments in the Gulf of Mexico, close to the port of Chicxulub.

Further study, together with the magnetic and gravity data, confirmed the site as an impact event, named for the nearby Chicxulub Pueblo. After this unusually large impact crater was confirmed, it ...

For one camper, a quick browse on Google Maps led to the discovery of what appears to be a meteor crater ... The second ...

When this 12km-wide object slammed into what is now the Gulf of Mexico ... The outer rim (white arc) of the crater lies partly under Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula A 12km-wide object dug a hole ...

Meteor Crater was created more than 50,000 years ago by a massive meteor strike near Winslow, Arizona. Visitors can experience the 550-foot-deep and nearly mile-wide cavity from an air-conditioned ...

About 2.2 billion years ago, a massive meteorite left a crater ... meteor wasn't the only space rock that changed Earth's climate. The 6-mile-wide asteroid that struck Chicxulub, Mexico, 66 ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an ...