The crater, located near the Pilbara town of Marble Bar, is thought to have been created 3.47 billion years ago.

"It would be near the diameter of the impact that resulted in the extinction of the dinosaurs, Chicxulub crater, which is the second-largest impact structure on Earth," he said. "So, it is likely ...

You can see evidence of this impact at the Chicxulub crater on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, which measures about 110 miles (180 km) across. The asteroid was likely between 6.2 and 9.3 miles ...

Created by the “Chicxulub Crater,” this sinkhole is right there, illuminated by the parking lot at night. Thankfully, even after the Costco closes, visitors can visit this natural phenomenon ...

One of the most famous of these 200 or so impact craters is the 200 km-diameter Chicxulub impact crater in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. This impact wiped out 65 percent of all species on Earth ...

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

“If this impact released enough water vapor, it might have tipped the climate toward warming.” Unlike the Chicxulub crater in Mexico, which still has clear geological markers from the asteroid impact ...

An ancient impact structure in remote northern Australia was recently spotted by one of NASA's Earth-observing satellite ...