About 35 million years ago, an asteroid struck the ocean off the East Coast of North America, leaving behind a massive impact crater now buried beneath the Chesapeake Bay. The collision unleashed ...

When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it's not all doom and gloom. The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after ...

The Chicxulub Impact Crater, located on the Yucatán Peninsula, represents one of Earth’s most significant impact structures and offers a unique window into catastrophic processes that reshaped the ...

Cores extracted from the impact crater revealed evidence of an ancient, life-nurturing hydrothermal system in the wake of the catastrophe. Reading time 3 minutes Around 66 million years ago, an ...

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About 66 million years ago, a cosmic collision reshaped life on Earth. A massive asteroid, roughly 10â 15 kilometres wide, slammed into our planet with unimaginable force. The result was a global ...