Chicxulub crater

6 days ago - Its center is offshore, but the crater is named after the onshore community of Chicxulub Pueblo (not the larger coastal town of Chicxulub Puerto). It was formed slightly over 66 million years ago when an asteroid, about ten kilometers (six miles) in diameter, struck Earth.

Luis Walter Alvarez (left) and his son Walter (right) are known for their theory that an asteroid collided with our planet 66 million years ago and caused all non-bird dinosaurs and many other animals to die out. Image: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory/ Wikimedia Commons · Asteroids are large, rocky objects that orbit the Sun. They range from a few to hundreds of metres in diameter. Any fragment of an asteroid that survives landing on Earth becomes known as a meteorite.

January 25, 2024 - On December 3, a scientific deep drilling projects starts on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico into the Chicxulub crater that was formed some 65 million years ago by the impact of an asteroid, which is believed to have caused the extinction of the ...

UPDATE: Today, scientists published their first results from a drilling expedition into Chicxulub crater, the buried remnants of an asteroid impact off the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico that killed off the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

Others think the dinosaurs were ... The asteroid left a crater over 150 kilometres wide, centred just off the coast of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico....

October 15, 2024 - An illustration showing the location of the Chicxulub crater, shortly after its formation. The Chicxulub crater is thought to be the impact scar left over from the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and other species on Earth.

December 3, 2024 - Approximately 66 million years ago, an asteroid nearly 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) across hit the Earth near what is now the Yucatan Peninsula, close to the current towns of Chicxulub Pueblo and Chicxulub Puerto (after which the resulting crater ...

September 22, 2025 - The asteroid and its aftermath are widely agreed to be the cause of the nonavian dinosaurs' extinction and ultimately wiped out about ... The dinosaur-killing asteroid struck what is now Mexico, creating the Chicxulub crater, which is 10 miles ...

October 3, 2024 - 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. That one ended the reign of the dinosaurs.

August 15, 2024 - Alvarez and his colleagues discovered a layer of debris laid down in 66-million-year-old rocks around the world that was curiously enriched with elements such as iridium, which is vanishingly rare in Earth’s crust but abundant in asteroids and comets. They eventually linked the layer’s origin to the dinosaur-killing impact and its now submerged giant scar: a site called Chicxulub, which Alvarez dubbed the “Crater of Doom.” But for decades, scientists have debated finer details: Was the impactor an asteroid instead of a comet—and if so, what type?

August 22, 2024 - About 66 million years ago, an asteroid struck Earth and caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. It appears to have created the Chicxulub crater buried beneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.

September 11, 2025 - Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula and triggered the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs.

August 16, 2024 - The Chicxulub event – the giant impact that ended the reign of non-avian dinosaurs, clearing the way for mammalian life to rise – was triggered by an asteroid from a region of the Solar System out past the orbit of Jupiter, the cold, dark ...

February 24, 2021 - The crater left by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs is located in the Yucatán Peninsula. It is called Chicxulub after a nearby town. Part of the crater is offshore and part of it is on land.

August 21, 2021 - Scientists have been trying to ... in Texas suggests that the dinosaur-destroying rock came from the outer half of the asteroid belt in our own solar system....

September 27, 2022 - The knowledge that an asteroid of this size caused extreme damage has helped Nasa design threat levels of asteroids likely to approach us. The impact site, known as the Chicxulub crater, is centred on the Yucatán Peninsula, in Mexico.

June 3, 2025 - The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater located off the Yucatán Peninsula that formed through an asteroid impact about 66 million years ago. The impact and resulting climate change is believed to have led to the mass extinction that wiped ...