Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid thought to be around 12 kilometers (7.4 miles) in diameter impacted the Earth, ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

THE world’s oldest-known crater from an asteroid smash 3.5 billion years ago has been discovered in the Australian outback.

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

The study findings have given a new twist to the extinction of dinosaurs. Surprisingly, the crater’s age coincides with Mexico’s Chicxulub impact event, which is thought to have wiped out the ...

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 ...

Scientists have concluded that the impact that created this crater occurred 65 million years ago. The date corresponds perfectly to the date of the dinosaur extinction. Rare Metal The metal ...

66 million years ago an asteroid hit the planet. Now an expedition is underway to drill 1500m into the crater it created - the Chicxulub asteroid impact crater, aiming to unearthing the secrets that ...

The Chicxulub asteroid strike is well-known for its role in dinosaur extinction ... of a Second Asteroid Impact A lesser-known crater, the Nadir, was discovered off the coast of West ...

And mammals sat poised to fill the void that soon would be left by the vanished dinosaurs. A giant crater smoldered on what would become known as the Yucatán Peninsula. Whether or not the ...

The diameter of the impact crater is about 110 miles with a depth of 12 miles. This event caused the rapid and global extinction of non-avian dinosaurs across the globe. Millions of years down the ...

He said: "It would be near the diameter of the impact that resulted in the extinction of the dinosaurs, Chicxulub crater, which is the second-largest impact structure on Earth. "So, it is likely ...