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

In northern Siberia lies the Popigai crater, forged by an immense impact around 35 million years ago. Notably, the heat and pressure from the collision transformed graphite deposits into diamonds, ...

This impact feature, called Popigai, is the fourth-biggest impact crater known on Earth, and has remained remarkably uneroded.

To garner the results of this study, the research team looked at the impacts of two major asteroids from the late Eocene epoch (about 38 million years to 33 million years ago). One created the 60-mile ...

Two massive asteroids hit Earth around 35.65 million years ago, but did not lead to any lasting changes in the Earth's climate, according to a new study by UCL researchers. The rocks, both several ...

Scientists have revealed new details about an impact from a massive asteroid that smashed into the US. The 25-mile-wide crater was found in in Virginia's Chesapeake Bay.

The rocks, both several miles wide, hit Earth about 25,000 years apart, leaving the 60-mile (100km) Popigai crater in Siberia, Russia, and the 25-55 mile (40-85km) crater in the Chesapeake Bay, in ...

The events took place within 25,000 years of each other. One asteroid's diameter was between 5 and 8 kilometers (3-5 miles) and created the Popigai crater in Siberia, a depression 100 kilometers ...

The rocks, both several miles wide, hit Earth about 25,000 years apart, leaving the 60-mile (100km) Popigai crater in Siberia, Russia, and the 25-55 mile (40-85km) crater in the Chesapeake Bay, in ...

The larger of the two, which created the Popigai crater, was about as wide as Everest is tall. In addition to these two impacts, existing evidence suggests three smaller asteroids also hit Earth ...

Although the crater's age means it is one of the world's oldest impact craters, the events that caused the lake are much more recent. Nasa's Earth Observatory explains: "In the 1960s, Hydro ...