An asteroid discovered over 200 years ago which is roughly the size of Germany would have catastrophic consequences for life ...

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

The so-called Meteor Crater in Arizona previously held the record for largest impact crater less than 100,000 years old; it’s about 49,000 to 50,000 years old and measures 0.75 miles (1.2 km ...

—The largest asteroid impact crater on Earth is lurking beneath Australia, new evidence suggests — Single enormous object left 2 billion craters on Mars, scientists discover ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet's stages of evolution.

THE world's oldest-known crater from an asteroid smash 3.5 billion years ... which is the second-largest impact structure on Earth. "So, it is likely to have had a global impact." ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

Scientists in Australia say they’ve found the world’s oldest impact crater, surpassing the previous record-holder’s age by more than 1.25 billion years. The meteorite impact—in Western ...

ON February 15, 2013, an asteroid scorched through the atmosphere above Russia - the largest meteor to reach ... some large enough to inflict mini craters. The agency is working with Nasa to ...

It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no longer western Australia’s 2.2 billion-year-old, 43-mile-wide Yarrabubba crater. Researchers at Curtin University ...

Curtin University Researchers have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater known to science in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. The feature is more than one billion years older than the ...