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

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 ...

Recent studies suggest that Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and ... molecules crucial to life—around Ertunet Crater on Ceres, leading researchers to believe that ...

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 ...