THE world’s oldest-known crater from an asteroid smash 3.5 billion years ago has been discovered in the Australian outback.

Some 66 million years after the Chicxulub asteroid impact kickstarted the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-T) extinction, scientists are still finding stunning evidence of its destruction. In 2021 ...

The asteroid left a crater over 150 kilometres wide, centred just off the coast of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico. It was named after Chicxulub Pueblo, a small town close to this point.

The Earth formed an estimated 4.5 billion years ago but there has been little evidence of meteor strikes in the first half of ...

Seismic data reveals megaripples in Louisiana, formed by the Chicxulub asteroid’s tsunami 66 million years ago.

As the theory goes, a 6-mile-wide meteor plunged into Earth near modern-day Chicxulub on the Yucatan ... in the K-Pg layer but not in the impact crater, suggesting that the impact launched sulfur ...

The Chicxulub asteroid strike is well-known for ... New Evidence of a Second Asteroid Impact A lesser-known crater, the Nadir, was discovered off the coast of West Africa, leading ...

One of the most famous of these 200 or so impact craters is the 200 km-diameter Chicxulub impact crater ... on Earth is the 1.2 km in diameter Meteor Crater in Arizona, which formed 50,000 years ...

66 million years ago an asteroid hit the planet. Now an expedition is underway to drill 1500m into the crater it created - the Chicxulub asteroid impact crater, aiming to unearthing the secrets that ...

Until now, a crater called Yarrabubba held the title of the oldest meteor strike site ... that resulted in the extinction of the dinosaurs, Chicxulub crater, which is the second-largest impact ...