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

As a planetary geologist, my research focuses on meteorite impact craters, the scars of large asteroid and cometary impacts in Earth's past. There are countless numbers of asteroids and an unknown ...

lies what scientists have now confirmed as the oldest known asteroid impact site on Earth. The Yarrabubba crater, dating back 2.229 billion years, predates all previously identified impact structures.

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Geologists have now unearthed ...

Once, a very long time ago, a massive asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs. In addition to functionally restarting land-based life on our planet and setting the stage for humans to ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Researchers in Western Australia believe an asteroid struck the Pilbara region 3.57 billion years ago, making it the oldest ...

February, asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted and originally believed to have a 3.1 per cent of hitting Earth in 2032. Further calculations revealed this was not the case.