The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact - The Day the Dinosaurs Died One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in ...

The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.

About 65 million years ago, a huge asteroid struck the Earth in the Gulf of Mexico. The enormous Chicxulub ... made a huge crater in the area that is now the Chesapeake Bay, near Washington ...