The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way ...

New Curtin University research has revealed that a massive meteorite struck northwestern Scotland about 200 million years ...

Why it's incredible: Evidence suggests it could be the greatest known impact crater on Earth. The Wilkes Land crater is a hole in the bedrock beneath East Antarctica's ice sheet measuring 315 ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...