The extinction of the dinosaurs and around three-quarters of all living species was almost
certainly caused by a large asteroid impact 66 million years ago. Seismic data acquired …

Geophysical data indicate that the 65.5 million years ago Chicxulub impact structure is a
multi‐ring basin, with three sets of semicontinuous, arcuate ring faults and a topographic …

Large impacts provide a mechanism for resurfacing planets through mixing near-surface
rocks with deeper material. Central peaks are formed from the dynamic uplift of rocks during …

Highly expanded Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary section from the Chicxulub peak
ring, recovered by International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP)–International Continental …

The environmental severity of large impacts on Earth is influenced by their impact trajectory.
Impact direction and angle to the target plane affect the volume and depth of origin of …

Almost every meteorite impact occurs at an oblique angle of incidence, yet the effect of
impact angle on crater size or formation mechanism is only poorly understood. This is, in …

The South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin is the largest and oldest definitive impact structure on the
Moon. To understand how this immense basin formed, we conducted a suite of SPA-scale …

Impact‐induced fracturing creates porosity that is responsible for many aspects of the
geophysical signature of an impact crater. This paper describes a simple model of dilatancy …

Maps of crustal thickness derived from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory
(GRAIL) mission revealed more large impact basins on the nearside hemisphere of the …

Large meteorite impact structures on the terrestrial bodies of the Solar System contain
pronounced topographic rings, which emerged from uplifted target (crustal) rocks within …