The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

It may have weighed up to 180,800 pounds (82,000 kilograms). An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. The crash left a giant ...

They flattened forests, left massive craters and even killed the dinosaurs. Learn all about Earth’s hugest asteroid strikes.

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

Well, except, of course, for one. Maybe you've heard about the asteroid that killed all the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

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The most infamous asteroid impact occurred 66 million years ago, when a six-mile-wide space rock triggered a global winter, wiping out the dinosaurs ... than leaving a crater on the ground.

Related: What happened when the dinosaur-killing asteroid slammed into Earth ... pointing back to their source in the Chicxulub impact crater at the tip of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.

It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no longer western Australia’s 2.2 billion-year-old, 43-mile-wide Yarrabubba crater. Researchers at Curtin University ...

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

Most dinosaurs suddenly went extinct about 66 million years ago after an asteroid struck Earth. You can see evidence of this impact at the Chicxulub crater on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico ...