The impact, which precipitated widespread hydrothermal activity, ultimately created a nutrient-rich oceanic bath, the researchers say. "After the asteroid impact, the Gulf of Mexico records an ...

In the following decade, Chicxulub Crater was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico. And because the crater appeared to be the same age as the global rock layer enriched with asteroid dust, researchers ...

More information: Honami Sato et al, Prolonged 187 Os/ 188 Os excursion implies hydrothermal influence after the Chicxulub impact in the Gulf of Mexico, Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038 ...

Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid between six and ten miles (10 to 15 kilometers) wide slammed into what is now the Gulf of Mexico, leaving behind a massive 90-mile-wide (150 kilometers ...

The asteroid that created the Chicxulub Crater in the Gulf of Mexico is estimated to have been about 12km across. It gouged out a 200km-wide depression, and in the process set off mighty earth ...

In 1978, geophysicist Glen Penfield noticed a series of unusual features while poring over a magnetic survey map of the Gulf of Mexico, while working for Mexican oil company Pemex. To him, a ...

Who Owns The Gulf Of Mexico? Despite Trump claiming "we do most of the work there, and it's ours" in reference to the Gulf of Mexico, international waters are not owned by any country. The U.S ...

Researchers measured the temperature of the Chicxulub crater 66 million ... (200 km) bowl in what is now the Gulf of Mexico. ... It can also be applied to other impact craters around the ...

The National Hurricane Center is tracking a system nearing the Gulf of Mexico with a 40% chance of formation this week. See timeline and predicted U.S. impact.

The asteroid that created the Chicxulub Crater in the Gulf of Mexico is estimated to have been about 12km across. It gouged out a 200km-wide depression, and in the process set off mighty earth ...

The colossal impact event, which triggered a mass extinction event over much of Earth's land and ocean environments, also filled the present-day Gulf of Mexico with nutrients for at least 700,000 ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...