SACRAMENTO, Calif. — New evidence implicates one of Earth's biggest impact craters in a mass extinction that occurred 33.7 million years ago, according to research presented here Wednesday (June ...

Situated in Siberia, the Popigai Crater is one of the largest impact structures in Russia. The impact event is believed to have contributed to a minor extinction event. ・Located in Quebec ...

A rare find is buried in Russia's Popigai crater: diamonds. Some 35 million years ago, a meteorite crashed into carbon-rich graphite rock deposits in Siberia, and the impact's immense pressures ...

One crater is in Chesapeake Bay off the Maryland coast. The other, called the Popigai crater, is in north-central Siberia. Estimates of their age suggest they were created a mere 10,000 years apart.

One created the 60-mile-wide Popigai crater in Siberia, Russia, and the other created the 25-mile-to-55-mile-wide crater in the Chesapeake Bay in the U.S. These craters are the fourth and fifth ...

Here's all you really need to know about the Popigai crater: 35 million years ago, a fireball (technically a bolide, or extremely bright meteor) between 3 and 5 miles in diameter crashed into an ...

Two massive asteroids hit Earth around 35.65 million years ago, but did not lead to any lasting changes in the Earth's climate, according to a study by UCL researchers. The rocks, both several ...

The Christian Science Monitor explains that the diamond field was found in the 1970s in Siberia’s 90-kilometer wide Popigai crater, which dates back to 35 million years ago. The Popigai crater ...

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The Siberian branch of Russian Academy of Sciences said that the Popigai crater in eastern Siberia contains "many trillions of carats" of so-called "impact diamonds" — good for technological ...