
The impact crater, 52 km in diameter, caused by asteroids crashing into Earth became a favorable habitat for ancient microorganisms.

Previous evidence has been found to show that there was a giant meteorite hitting the Earth, in the area of today's Gulf of Mexico.

Meteors, sky rocks are generally a general noun that names objects from space and collides with the Earth's surface.

Aerial and underground survey results helped US experts determine the existence of an ancient impact crater beneath a town in the state of Iowa (USA).

US scientists have mapped a large submarine cliff in the southern Gulf of Mexico, which is thought to contain clues to the extinction dinosaur collision millions of years ago.