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

When what is now known as the ‘Yarrabubba impact structure’ was formed by the meteor strike ... The 2 billion-year-old crater can be found in South Africa and is also the world’s biggest at over ...

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 ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater thanks to pristine structures created by the blast in the rock. Hidden away in the country's outback, the ...

That surpasses the previous record-holding impact crater by more than 1.25 billion years, according to a paper published in Nature Communications on Thursday. MORE: Chance of asteroid striking ...

THE world's oldest-known crater from an asteroid smash 3.5 billion years ... which is the second-largest impact structure on Earth. "So, it is likely to have had a global impact." ...

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 Intel Made a Mistake Decades Ago.

Largest ever animal may have been Triassic ... the evolution of surviving dinosaurs into today’s birds). The asteroid left a crater over 150 kilometres wide, centred just off the coast of ...

bowl-like depression - it looked like a giant asteroid impact crater. The scientists wanted to be sure, though, since this would be the one of the 25 largest impact craters on Earth. So they ...

The study reveals that hundreds of square miles around the crater are covered with organic chemicals known as aliphatics, which are believed to have formed within the last 10 million years.

Scientific experts have been looking into whether the Earth’s first continent was formed by meteor ... year-old crater can be found in South Africa and is also the world’s biggest at over ...