The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way ...

Some 50,000 years ago, a meteor struck near what is now Flagstaff, Arizona, leaving a 560-foot-deep crater. More recently, an ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater thanks to pristine structures ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

"Megaripples" in the seafloor that were created in the aftermath of the dinosaur-killing asteroid impact extend much farther ...

World’s oldest impact crater found, rewriting Earth’s ancient history. Researchers from Curtin University found the ...

YR4 has now been reassigned to Torino Scale Level Zero, the level for 'No Hazard' as additional tracking of its orbital path has reduced its possibility of intersecting the Earth to below the ...

asteroid 2024 YR4. The chance of this impact rose to a high of 3.1 percent on Feb. 18. As a planetary geologist, my research focuses on meteorite impact craters, the scars of large asteroid and ...