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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.

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

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

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

One fateful day 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs — which had inhabited Earth for about 165 million years — got a nasty surprise: A roughly 9-mile-wide (15 kilometers) asteroid crashed into ...

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 ...

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 world's oldest-known crater from an asteroid smash 3.5 billion years ... the diameter of the impact that resulted in the extinction of the dinosaurs, Chicxulub crater, which is the second ...

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 ...