Meteor craters are incredible reminders of the powerful forces of nature and the history of our planet. These massive impact sites are created when asteroids or comets collide with Earth, leaving ...

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Hirata estimated that the initial impact crater was up to 1,000 miles (1,600 km) wide, making it 10 times wider than Earth's largest impact structure — the Vredefort Crater in South Africa. This ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact ...

The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 ...

The Chicxulub Impact Crater, located on the Yucatán Peninsula, represents one of Earth’s most significant impact structures and offers a unique window into catastrophic processes that reshaped ...

In a world obsessed with the apocalyptic hellfire of ‘carbon’ and the terror of an imperceptibly warmer climate nowhere near ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

Though it's been burning for over 50 years, the Darvaza gas crater is far from the longest burning "human error" fire to exist. In Centralia, Pennsylvania, an accidental trash fire ignited a coal ...

A brand-new, cutting-edge telescope called the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to release its first images to the world, and the public can watch in real time. On June 23 the observatory will ...

Here are historic photos from D-Day. 'We had a job' to do: Humble veteran, 100, recalls D-Day 81 years later 'Welcome home': Iowan killed on D-Day to be buried on 81st anniversary of his death ...

The Trump administration has green-lighted a plan for an Arizona mine that could create a crater deeper than the Eiffel Tower is high on ground considered sacred by some Native Americans.