The Chicxulub impact crater, located on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, is one of the most significant geological features on Earth, primarily due to its association with the mass extinction ...

The asteroid left a crater over 150 kilometres wide, centred just off the coast of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico. It was named after Chicxulub Pueblo, a small town close to this point.

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath ...