The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. And, until now, it had been assumed that the asteroid acted alone. This week, scientists at Scotland ...

but the minutes and hours that followed the catastrophic impact. The giant space rock actually struck Earth in what is now the Gulf of Mexico, some 3,000km away from Tanis, but such was the energy ...

In the wake of the recent oil spill off the Louisiana coast, the Gulf of Mexico finds itself grappling with an environmental crisis reminiscent of the infamous Deepwater Horizon incident in 2010.