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

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

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

THE world’s oldest-known crater from an asteroid smash 3.5 billion years ago has been discovered in the Australian outback. The ancient hole, near the town of Marble Bar, north-west ...

New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

In 2021, a team led by Dr Gary Kinsland of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette found evidence that the impact and ...

Johnson reports the crater can be seen today only in a 35-mile wide dome that marks exactly where the asteroid impacted.

This new map of the megaripples can help predict the impact of future tsunamis, and to better understand the dinosaur extinction event, scientists say.

The extinction of the dinosaurs was most probably caused by an asteroid hitting the Earth - but what would have happened if the giant space rock had missed? For a long time it was thought that ...

The crash left a giant crater around 110 miles ... most scientists think the asteroid caused the mass extinction. Only small theropod dinosaurs survived the extinction; the ancestors of modern ...