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 …

Dec 9, 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 …

Dec 4, 2023 · It is one of the most significant impact structures on Earth and is associated with the mass extinction event that occurred around 66 million years ago, marking the end of the Cretaceous period …

Apr 12, 2022 · Chicxulub is one of the largest types of crater, possessing a topographic ring of hills within the impact basin known as a peak ring 13, 14. As the most pristine large impact structure on …

Apr 30, 2025 · Chicxulub punches through the seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico. This instantly vaporizes the asteroid and the incredible energy of the impact is transferred to the Earth. The resulting …

The researchers called the crater Chicxulub, a Maya word that roughly translates as “tail of the devil.” The crater, now buried beneath a kilometer-thick sequence of sediments, has been imaged using …

The Chicxulub Crater is one of the largest impact craters on Earth, the only one with an unequivocal peak ring, and the only one linked to a mass extinction. These are the first cores from the peak ring …

Sep 9, 2019 · The immense Chicxulub crater is a remnant of one of the most consequential days in the history of life on Earth. The asteroid strike triggered the Cretaceous-Paleogene, or K-Pg, mass …

Oct 1, 2024 · It’s well established that the Chicxulub crater is the remnants of the asteroid impact that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. But how much do we really know about the asteroid that fell to …

Oct 19, 2023 · This illustrated image of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula shows a subtle indication of the Chicxulub impact crater in the upper left.