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 ...

No, it’s not that asteroid, the one that doomed the dinosaurs to extinction, but a previously unknown crater 248 miles off the coast of West Africa that was created right around the same time.

Scientists have dubbed a newly-discovered crater the “Dinosaur Killer’s Cousin,” estimating the meteorite could have ... off the coast of Guinea in west Africa. Dr. Uisdean Nicholson of ...

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 ...

In the journal Science Advances, scientists on Wednesday reported that a huge, buried pit off the coast of Guinea in West Africa had all of the appearances of an impact crater made by a meteor.

off the coast of Guinea in west Africa. The data revealed a depression more than 8.5km wide, which Dr. Nicholson suspected ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...