New species of plankton appeared fewer than 2,000 years after the world-altering event, according to research led by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and published in Geology.

Elon Musk has opened up about becoming multiplanetary as he shared a post about the Chicxulub asteroid on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday, November 17. He asserted that humans must become ...

In September 2025, an X post (archived) viewed over 1 million times claimed the world's biggest meteorite impact crater was in Mexico and included a video of the purported site. The video and claim ...

What if we told you that the giant crater believed to have ended the reign of the dinosaurs is still here on Earth—but the actual meteor that made it? Nowhere to be found. 🌍💥 The Chicxulub Crater in ...

Inch by inch, the team pulled up the skinny core of ghostly white limestone from the ocean floor, gazing at the compressed remains of ancient organisms that died tens of millions of years ago. But ...

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 ...

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For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath Mexico’x Yucatan Peninsula. But new research has revealed that there were at least ...

Thanks to decades of collaboration between geologists, paleontologists, meteorologists, and astronomers, we possess a fairly confident timeline of when and how dinosaurs' Earthly reign was cut short.

Geological clues suggest that the space rock that created Chicxulub crater was a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite. Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula and ...

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