The Meteorite Museum in Progreso marked a milestone Sunday with its third-anniversary celebration, drawing more than 1,500 visitors to the beachfront attraction. The record attendance highlighted the museum’s growing popularity since opening in July 2022. The Museo del Meteorito, on the Malecón about seven blocks east of Progreso’s pier, focuses on the Chicxulub meteorite impact…
Yucatán is at the center of a worldwide scientific Asteroid Day 2025 celebration on Sunday, June 29. “Asteroid Day 2025: Yucatán, where the Earth changed forever” runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Biblioteca Vagabunda del Museo de la Luz. General admission is 25 pesos. A Global Movement with Local Significance Asteroid Day,…
Construction began today at a new attraction near the entrance to Chicxulub, in the municipality of Progreso.
The 2016 scientific drilling expedition off the coast of Yucatán has yielded space dust, evidence that the asteroid impact and dinosaur extinction are “indisputably linked.” Around 66 million years ago, all the dinosaurs that couldn’t fly were abruptly wiped out, and a growing body of research identifies the culprit as an asteroid impact that left…
The asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs and created the Chicxulub crater in Yucatán may have not been an asteroid after all. Scientists at Harvard University now believe that a comet propelled by Jupiter’s gravity was the real culprit. The comet is thought to have likely originated from a remote area of the solar system…
Paperwork has been filed to make the port town where the famous crater gets its name its own independent municipality.
Merida, Yucatan — Hungry for more clues to the earth’s history and the demise of the dinosaurs, the leader of a previous expedition wants to drill again to learn about the Chicxulub crater. Jaime Urrutia Fucuguachi, a researcher at the UNAM Institute of Geophysics, confirmed that there is a strong possibility of a second expedition. A…
The meteor that left the Chicxulub Crater might have wiped out the dinosaurs, but could contain a cancer-curing cancer, reports a British news agency.
Too few people appreciate how the Chicxulub Crater impact changed the world, a prominent scientist says.
A new study of an unusual ring of smashed rocks beneath the Yucatán Peninsula has brought fresh insight into the Chicxulub crater mystery.
Excited by what they found off the coast of Yucatán, scientists are returning for seconds.
The asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula, not only wiped out the dinosaurs but also may have set off a chain of cataclysmic volcanic eruptions, claims a divisive new study.
The Chicxulub Crater Museum, which is about 60 percent done, will be completed in July, a state agency announced.
It looks like GTFO, the creepy action/horror game unveiled at the Game Awards, will be set in the Chicxulub Crater.
“Between 18,000 and 23,000 years ago, the Yucatán Peninsula was literally bigger,” said a smiling scientist who was part of April’s study team on the Gulf of Mexico.
Months after drilling into the Chicxulub “dinosaur crater” site off Progreso, scientists have obtained remarkable new insights, with more to come.
Scientists have a new theory about how the Chicxulub crater, which hit the Yucatán about 66 million years ago, caused the demise of so many creatures but not others.
One of the most well-known natural features on the peninsula is associated with this small fishing village. But its existence is barely perceptible, and residents complain they gain little out of their town’s place in history.
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Drilling off the Yucatán coast since April, scientists have achieved one of their main goals in their quest to understand the effects of a now-famous crater that rocked Chicxulub 66 million years ago.
Now analysis of commercial oil drilling data—denied to the academic community until recently—offers the first detailed look at how the Chicxulub impact reshaped the Gulf of Mexico, the Smithsonian reports.
Scientists from Mexico, England, Spain, Germany, the United States, Holland and Japan will gather in March for a new study of the famed Chicxulub Crater.
That’s all for now
That’s all for now