Chicxulub crater

5 days ago - The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. 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 ...

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.

The discovery of shocked quartz, shocked feldspar, and impact melts in the Yucatán-6 exploration borehole from the interior of the Chicxulub structure, proved it was an impact crater and that it was produced at the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary. This is a photograph of one of the two samples behind that discovery.

1 week ago - 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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

6 days ago - Buried beneath thousands of feet ... The Chicxulub Crater, named after the village that lies near its center, spans over 93 miles wide and 12 miles deep, with about half of it resting below the Gulf of Mexico....

February 7, 2023 - It has been known for almost 40 years that a large meteorite struck the Earth around 66 million years ago in a place in southern Mexico that we call Chicxulub, in the Yucatán Peninsula.

The Chicxulub Impact Crater, is a geomorphological formation dating from the end of the Mesozoic era, specifically by the end of the Cretaceous at the limits with the Terciary, that was produced by the impact of a meteorite.

October 15, 2024 - The calculated formation of this crater coincides with the mass extinction of the dinosaurs around 66 million years ago, and the impactor is believed to have been an asteroid about 10–15km in diameter. For more on asteroids and meteorites, read our interview with Dr Sarah Crowther on the science of space rocks or find out how dogs can help locate meteorites on Earth. An illustration showing the location of the Chicxulub crater, shortly after its formation.

November 21, 2023 - A city-size asteroid impacted the Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago, creating the 200km-wide Chicxulub crater.

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July 10, 2025 - "The initial impact generated a massive blast wave and heatwave that radiated outwards from the Chicxulub Crater in the Yucatán Peninsula.

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.

March 15, 2022 - The Chicxulub crater is located in the northern part of the Yucatan peninsula, with about half of the (underground) rim on land and the other half underwater in the Gulf of Mexico.

October 15, 2025 - Discover the Chicxulub crater in Yucatán, Mexico. Explore the impact of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, its cenotes, and museums. A fascinating geological history!

September 15, 2021 - Core samples taken from ground zero, the Chicxulub crater in the modern-day Gulf of Mexico, reveal what happened in the days after the massive asteroid impact.