A new impact crater dating to 66 million years ago points to another big impact at the end of the ... has been discovered off the coast of West Africa, raising questions about whether the asteroid ...

When Africa and South America split apart ... confirmation that the Nadir Crater is actually a crater, he says, “it’s like constructing a big castle of stone on something that is not stable.” ...

It's not as big as the one we know at Chicxulub in Mexico ... Scientists will only know for sure when rocks from the west African crater are inspected in the lab "A much smaller cousin, or ...

A circular depression deep in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been confirmed as the first known impact crater in central Africa ... gravel roads with big potholes inside.

Based on the size of the Vredefort crater, the enormous impact scar left by the gargantuan space rock in what is now South Africa ... it even harder to tell how big the crater used to be.

It’s a big week for asteroids ... only about 1,200 to 1,500 miles (2,000 to 2,500 kilometers) from the crater in South Africa—much closer than the roughly 6,176 miles (9.940 kilometers ...

He said: "So, when you form a really big crater, the middle bit forces it's ... possibly falling as far as South Africa. Earth was formed around 4.5 billion years ago, and the meteor smashed ...