Here’s how it works. A likely asteroid impact crater from the latter days of the dinosaurs has been discovered off the coast of West Africa, raising questions about whether the asteroid that ...

When Africa and South America split apart during ... argues that it’s the crater from a meteor as wide as the Eiffel Tower is tall. If it’s confirmed as a crater, it would have crashed into ...

A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 ... Earth at around the same time off the coast of West Africa. The 5-mile-wide Nadir Crater was found nearly a thousand feet under the floor ...

The Vredefort crater in South Africa, estimated to be 2.023 billion ... of Imperial College London ran computer simulations ...

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out ... smaller space rock smashed into the sea off the coast of West Africa creating a large crater during the same era. It would have been a ...

Striking along the coast of West Africa, this asteroid—which left behind the nine- kilometer-wide Nadir crater—would’ve been smaller than the original dino-killer, but its 500-meter-wide ...

If it did collide with Earth, an asteroid of that size could cause an explosion in the atmosphere or even create an impact crater ... parts of Africa, the Arabian Sea and South Asia.

THE world's oldest-known crater from an asteroid smash 3.5 billion years ago has been discovered in the Australian outback. The ancient hole, near the town of Marble Bar, north-west Australia, was ...

Aerial perspective showing Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater, Western Australia ... indistinguishable” from old rock beds in South Africa, according to the study. "[T]he tremendous amount of energy ...