A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

Map showing location of Nadir Crater and seismic and well dataset. Credit: Communications Earth & Environment (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01700-4 New images of an asteroid impact crater buried ...

The asteroid 66 million years ago that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs hit at a 60-degree angle — ensuring maximum death and destruction.

A new study reveals that the impact of the Meteor crater may have caused a landslide that flooded the Grand Canyon 56,000 ...

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy. Some geologists were adamant that an asteroid produced the nearly-perfect ...

Research Grand Canyon landslide-dam and paleolake triggered by the Meteor Crater impact at 56 ka by a team from the University of New Mexico describes a lake in the Grand Canyon created by a landslide ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into what is now Mexico, forming the Chicxulub crater. This impact wiped out ...

A recent study from the University of New Mexico has proposed a fascinating theory about the formation of the Grand Canyon.