Glide over Nördlingen, Germany’s extraordinary medieval town, uniquely built inside a massive 15-million-year-old meteor crater. This stunning drone footage reveals its perfectly preserved ...

By Aimee Ortiz For a few brief moments on Wednesday, a bright fireball lit up the predawn skies near Mexico City. The display ... according to the American Meteor Society. Whereas a meteorite ...

The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life ...

The crater is ... created by a meteor around 2,000 feet (600 m) across, according to estimates from the Lunar and Planetary Institute. An impactor of this size, known as a "city-killer" asteroid ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula ... an asteroid the size of a city collided with Earth. The Chicxulub impactor, as it is called, was somewhere between 10 and 15 kilometres in ...

Savonoski Crater is a 1,600-foot-wide hole in Alaska that looks like a meteorite impact site—but no space rock has ever been found. Despite its striking shape, there are no traces of meteoritic ...

Australian scientists have recently discovered the oldest known meteorite impact crater in the world, which could change our understanding of the origins of life and Earth. The crater is located ...