About 35 million years ago, an asteroid struck the ocean off the East Coast of North America, leaving behind a massive impact ...

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 ...

"One advantage of the shallow entry, slow velocity atmospheric path model is that by the time the meteoroid is close to ...

The gigantic cataclysm, which released energy 130 times more powerful than the detonation of the entire world’s atomic ...

A massive meteor strike on Mars sent shockwaves across the planet, revealing that some of its tremors weren’t tectonic but ...

"It is likely around the same size as the 1908 Tunguska rock or the Meteor Crater rock," Rankin said ... Tunguska is currently the largest recorded asteroid strike event in human history, though we ...

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 ...

the site of the planet’s largest volcanic explosion. A 40 km-wide vent sits at its center, surrounded by a 300 km-wide deposit from at least three eruptions. To the left lies the Fonteyn crater ...

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 ...

The rounded St. Helena Parish meteorite crater appears almost in the center of this Light Detection and Ranging, or LIDAR, map. A close look also will reveal the line that is La. 37, which cuts ...

Meteor Crater in Arizona is believed to have been created by a 50m ... By April, it will be lost to even the world’s largest ...