The new finding also indicates that the asteroid impact ... what is now the Gulf of Mexico, which is roughly 124 miles wide. Shortly after the strike, tsunami waves filled the crater with sediment.

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 diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the ...

Some 66 million years after the Chicxulub asteroid impact kickstarted the Cretaceous ... in a 900-square-mile area throughout the Gulf of Mexico, along with their varying formations along ...