As a planetary geologist, my research focuses on meteorite impact craters ... is the 200 km-diameter Chicxulub impact crater in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. This impact wiped out 65 percent ...

Mexico. This impact wiped out 65 per cent of all species on Earth, including the dinosaurs, 66 million years ago. One of the most recent and best-preserved craters on Earth is the 1.2 km in diameter ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

The Earth bears geologic evidence of past cosmic impacts, such as the 125-mile-wide Chixculub Crater in Mexico’s Yucatan ... of a more recent cosmic impact, Meteor Crater near Winslow, Arizona ...

For a $29 admission at the Meteor Crater and Barrington Space Museum, you can sign up for a guided hike of the crater’s rim. Stretch Your Legs: Continental Divide Trail; Grants, New Mexico You ...

Since a potentially hazardous asteroid was detected in December, tens of others objects have come close to Earth.

Nothing beats packing up the car, making some new playlists, downloading a few podcast series, and heading off for a road ...

Barlangi Rock is one of Australia’s 27 meteorite impact craters ... it might have tipped the climate toward warming.” Unlike the Chicxulub crater in Mexico, which still has clear geological markers ...

Any time an asteroid hits Earth (any object that, whether comet or asteroid, enters our atmosphere, officially becomes a meteor), it has ... (1.5 kilometer-wide) crater more than 984 ft (300 ...

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

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater in Western Australia's Pilbara region. This ancient structure, dating back approximately ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet's stages of evolution.