Meteor strikes are usually associated with mass extinctions, but a new study shows that one meteor strike could have actually ...

This 150-kilometer-wide crater lies just off the Yucatan peninsula. Scientists calculate that it was blasted into Earth by a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid or comet traveling 30 kilometers per second ...

A giant 60-ft asteroid, 2024 XN15, hurtling at 35,064 km/h, will approach Earth tomorrow, passing within close proximity.

Taking off from Mérida’s airport, in Mexico’s southeastern Yucatán state, offers some breathtaking views: the emerald waters ...

Taking off from Mérida’s airport, in Mexico’s southeastern Yucatán state, offers some breathtaking views: the emerald waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the unusual geography shaped by an asteroid millions ...

Yet the result of that relative safety is increasing migration flows and an urban expansion that threatens a fragile environment: The Mayan Forest, stretching across the Yucatán Peninsula ...

The last 365 days have been filled with extreme weather events, including powerful hurricanes and other natural disasters, ...

Scientists have uncovered over 200 dinosaur footprints belonging to giant herbivores and ferocious predators buried in the floor of an Oxfordshire quarry.

On one infamous day in the late Cretaceous period, an asteroid the size of a mountain ... And all across the peninsula, increasing numbers of people are drawing water from the underground aquifers ...