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.

Researchers think new evidence found in the Chicxulub Crater finally closes the case of what happened to the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

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 colossal impact event, which triggered a mass extinction event over much of Earth's land and ocean environments, also filled the present-day Gulf of Mexico with nutrients for at least 700,000 ...

Parts of the town of Wetumpka, Ala., sit within a 4.7-mile in diameter meteor crater. It was created approximately 83 million years ago when a meteor 1,100-plus feet in diameter traveling 10-20 ...

To form a Gulf-size crater in rocky soil, the energy required is 14 trillion megatons. So, an impactor would need to be about 50 miles across.

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 ...

Scientists Set To Drill Into Extinction-Event Crater In Mexico 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 ...