Scientists drilling beneath the Gulf of Mexico have hit the layer deposited when an asteroid the size of Staten Island, N.Y., hit Earth. Samples might contain details from that fateful day.

In the following decade, Chicxulub Crater was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico. And because the crater appeared to be the same age as the global rock layer enriched with asteroid dust, researchers ...

After a meteor punched a huge crater into the Earth 65.5 million years ago, 70 percent of the planet's species went extinct. Today, pieces of that meteor are found all over the world.

The impact, which precipitated widespread hydrothermal activity, ultimately created a nutrient-rich oceanic bath, the researchers say. "After the asteroid impact, the Gulf of Mexico records an ...

To form a Gulf-size crater in rocky soil, the energy required is 14 trillion megatons. If we assume an impact speed of 45,000 mph (72,000 km/h), the culprit body must be about 51 miles (82 km) across.

Parts of the town of Wetumpka, Ala., sit within a 4.7-mile in diameter meteor crater. ... an atmospheric blast wave and falling debris that would have reached to what is now the Gulf of Mexico.

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...

Scientists plan to drill into an impact crater where the remnants of a killer asteroid lie off Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The Chicxulub crater is the spot where an asteroid stuck 66 million ...