Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact struck with such force that it carved out a vast crater, later buried ...
An asteroid that struck Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago left a long trail of destruction in its wake, new research ...
Geologists found traces of an extraterrestrial impact from the Eocene epoch and a subsequent tsunami in the Paint Hill area ...
In a scientific breakthrough with cosmic implications, researchers have, for the first time, precisely dated the emergence of ...
Two of Arizona's most famous landmarks may be linked by cosmic violence: the asteroid that gouged out Meteor Crater may have also caused the formation of an ancient lake in the Grand Canyon. This ...
Satellites have captured amazing views views of these craters on Earth. ESA explains. Nördlinger Ries, Ouarkziz Crater, ...
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Scientists thought that an Australian museum’s collection of tektites came from an 800,000-year-old asteroid strike on Earth. Some of them turned out to be much older.