The second asteroid's impact site is called the Nadir crater. Rock was liquified, launching a tsunami into the Atlantic Ocean ...

What intrigues scientists is the age of the crater: it coincides with that of Chicxulub, the asteroid linked to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Some estimate it could be a fragment of a larger ...

Further study, together with the magnetic and gravity data, confirmed the site as an impact event, named for the nearby Chicxulub Pueblo. After this unusually large impact crater was confirmed, it ...

The Chicxulub asteroid strike is well-known for its role in dinosaur extinction ... of a Second Asteroid Impact A lesser-known crater, the Nadir, was discovered off the coast of West ...

It boiled the oceans, drove global darkness for years to decades, and stoked unimaginable tsunamis (thousands of meters deep) ...

Scientists have revealed images of an asteroid impact crater buried 300 meters under the ocean floor ... which is widely believed to have led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. This raises questions ...

Newly published images from Heriot-Watt University show the 9km wide Nadir Crater under the Atlantic, formed by an asteroid around the same time dinosaurs went extinct. Detailed 3D imaging has ...

Carrying sledge hammers, scientists hiked to the impact site in South Africa to chisel off chunks of rock to understand the ...