When what is now known as the ‘Yarrabubba impact structure’ was formed by the meteor strike ... The 2 billion-year-old crater can be found in South Africa and is also the world’s biggest at over ...

They flattened forests, left massive craters and even killed the dinosaurs. Learn all about Earth’s hugest asteroid strikes.

The impact crater is the second discovered in China. A crescent-shaped crater in Northeast China holds the record as the largest impact crater on Earth that formed in the last 100,000 years.

Researchers say they have found "unequivocal evidence" that a meteorite smashed into Earth 3.47 billion years ago, ...

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered what they say is the largest asteroid impact area ever found on Earth. WSJ's Monika Auger reports. Photo: A. Clikson Intel Made a Mistake Decades Ago.

Meteor Crater was created more than 50,000 years ago by a massive meteor strike near Winslow, Arizona. Visitors can experience the 550-foot-deep and nearly mile-wide cavity from an air-conditioned ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an ...

Greenland is hiding an explosive secret under its thick ice sheet. In 2015, researchers created a new map of the continent's bedrock, which is normally obscured by thousands of feet of ice.

Discovered by Arizona's Catalina Sky Survey, the Big Ben-sized asteroid 2024 YR4 is now seen as a negligible threat, with recent data significantly reducing its impact probability to just 0.004% ...

‘Shatter cones’ at the North Pole Dome in the centre of the Pilbara region, Australia. (Picture: Curtin University) Scientists believe a newly-discovered crater believed to be the oldest in ...