A huge meteorite first discovered in 2014 caused a tsunami bigger than any in known human history and boiled the oceans, ...

The second asteroid's impact site is called the Nadir crater. Rock was liquified, launching a tsunami into the Atlantic Ocean ...

Dr Rochette examined the site more closely and concluded that the impact of a meteor may ... the biggest impact crater found ...

The Southern Taurid meteor shower is set to peak Monday night into Tuesday with a chance for sky-gazers to spot fireballs.

So, that’s where the sea … bed got collapsed back in.” A map shows the location of Nadir Crater off the coast of West Africa. (Uisdean Nicholson) The asteroid that made the crater would have ...

said that the crater would have spanned a distance “pretty much all the way from New York City to northern Maine.” To conduct ...

Geologists suggest the catastrophic impact of "S2" delivered key nutrients to the oceans, prompting microorganisms to thrive ...

The next oldest impact crater site on the planet is the giant Vredefort Dome in South Africa, which is 2.02 billion ... According to the study, when the Yarrabubba meteor hit, it likely smacked ...

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 ...

In the 1960s, scientists discovered more microscopic diamonds in the remains of the vast Canyon Diablo meteorite, which formed Meteor Crater in Arizona. The diamonds are sand-grain-sized ...

But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off the coast of Guinea in western Africa -- proving ... The largest meteor impact in living memory is the "super bolide ...