The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. And, until now, it had been assumed that the asteroid acted alone. This week, scientists at Scotland ...

This is the feature that is now buried under sediments in the Gulf of Mexico, close to the port of Chicxulub. The impact description - scientists call it the dynamic collapse model of crater ...

Scientists have found an extraordinary snapshot of the fallout from the asteroid impact that wiped out ... object slammed into what is now the Gulf of Mexico, it would have hurled billions of ...

In the wake of the recent oil spill off the Louisiana coast, the Gulf of Mexico finds itself grappling with an environmental crisis reminiscent of the infamous Deepwater Horizon incident in 2010.