The asteroid belt that sits between Mars ... But the most fascinating discovery has been made around one of its largest craters, the Ertunet Crater. Maria Cristina De Sanctis, a planetary ...

The second biggest is the Chicxulub crater on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, which is 180 km (112 miles) wide, and created by a ...

This exceeds the size of the near-300km-wide Vredefort impact structure in South Africa, which to date has been considered the world's largest ... an asteroid strikes, it creates a crater with ...

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 ...

The world's largest asteroid impact, 300 miles across, could be hidden in the Australian ground. Scientists have been tracing "magnetic" and "gravity" patterns spreading out in circles from a ...

Among other things, the study proved that the crater was, in fact ... these types of impacts are exceedingly rare. The largest meteor impact in living memory is the "super bolide" asteroid ...

The generally accepted theory is that either an asteroid or comet entered ... "Tunguska is the largest cosmic impact witnessed by modern humans." Surprisingly, the first investigation of the ...