XA1, struck Earth on Dec. 3, 2024, burning up over Siberia. It's the 11th detected before impact. No damage was reported.

a massive asteroid slammed into Earth. The Chicxulub impactor, as it is called, famously wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs ...

Scientists have found an extraordinary snapshot of the fallout from the asteroid impact ... of the crater lies partly under Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula A 12km-wide object dug a hole in Earth's ...

The outer rim (white arc) of the crater lies under the Yucatan Peninsula itself ... is traced by an arc of sinkholes Max Alexander/B612/Asteroid Day Mexico's famous sinkholes (cenotes) have ...

This 150-kilometer-wide crater lies just off the Yucatan peninsula. Scientists calculate that it was blasted into Earth by a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid or comet traveling 30 kilometers per second ...

much of the Yucatán Peninsula was submerged under seawater, leaving behind a vast layer of limestone. This limestone is ...

A giant crater smoldered on what would become known as the Yucatán Peninsula. Whether or not the asteroid or comet that carved the Chicxulub crater caused the extinction of more than half the ...

For the first time in history, a team of international scientists are drilling into the center of the underwater crater created by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. Produced by Jenner Deal.

About 2.2 billion years ago, a massive meteorite left a crater there 43 ... "For example, the spot on the Yucatan peninsula were the Chicxulub impact occurred happened to have large salt and ...