The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula.

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all ...

The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life ...

Cores extracted from the impact crater revealed evidence of an ancient, life-nurturing hydrothermal system in the wake of the ...

As if we did not already have enough to worry about, astronomers recently discovered an asteroid that may hit the Earth. Based on observations of its orbit, Asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

Fishing piers extend into the Gulf, where locals cast their lines from sunrise to ... Wetumpka’s claim to fame is that it sits in the center of an ancient meteor crater. That’s right – about 85 ...

Photo credit: Cruiser Dauphin Island sits at Alabama’s edge like a comma in the Gulf of Mexico – a pause before the vast open ... Wetumpka’s colorful downtown: where meteor-induced geography created ...

Chinese state-owned CNOOC has sold its Gulf of Mexico oil assets to UK-based Ineos Energy for $2 billion. The purchase marks Ineos’ third major U.S. energy investment in three years. Despite ...

The dispute between the AP and the White House began after Mr. Trump declared that the name for the Gulf of Mexico would be changed to the Gulf of America. In the wake of that decision ...

Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence ...