If the ring is confirmed to be created by a meteorite impact ... The second biggest is the Chicxulub crater on Mexico’s ...

Further study, together with the magnetic and gravity data, confirmed the site as an impact event, named for the nearby ...

The second asteroid's impact site is called the Nadir crater. Rock was liquified, launching a tsunami into the Atlantic Ocean ...

The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period caused a global calamity that ...

Meteor Crater was created more than 50,000 years ago by a massive meteor strike near Winslow, Arizona. Visitors can experience the 550-foot-deep and nearly mile-wide cavity from an air-conditioned ...

About 2.2 billion years ago, a massive meteorite left a crater there 43 miles wide ... The 6-mile-wide asteroid that struck Chicxulub, Mexico, 66 million years ago sparked wildfires that stretched ...

The extinction of the dinosaurs has been linked to a meteorite impact that left a crater in the seabed off the coast of Mexico. It wasn't just the dinosaurs, scientists estimate that 65-70% of all ...

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off ...

This rock vapor cloud and dust ejected from the crater ... think of meteorite impacts as being disastrous and detrimental to life — the best example being the Chicxulub impact (at Mexico's ...

This rock vapor cloud and dust ejected from the crater would have circled ... "We think of meteorite impacts as being ...