Viewers in New York will get a chance to see Vesta close to opposition after the sun goes down on May 2. The asteroid will ...

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While much remains unknown, it is intriguing that two ancient meteorite impacts, the 3.5-billion-year-old North Pole impact ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. The Yarrabubba impact structure in remote Western Australia is the oldest known asteroid crater on Earth, according to a study published ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ... around the crater’s edge. Largest ever animal may have been ...

New research in Sweden has uncovered perplexingly high methane emissions coming from the largest meteorite crater in Europe ... organic matter deep into the Earth, where it continues to produce ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An image of Vesta captured as NASA's Dawn spacecraft retreated from the asteroid in 2012.