Our planet is marked by scars from its tumultuous history, with craters serving as direct evidence of Earth’s violent encounters with celestial bodies. These natural formations have both fascinated ...

This impact feature, called Popigai, is the fourth-biggest impact crater known on Earth, and has remained remarkably uneroded. The second space rock, which was about 3 miles (5 km) wide ...

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 ...

The rocks, both several miles wide, hit Earth about 25,000 years apart, leaving the 60-mile (100km) Popigai crater in Siberia, Russia, and the 25-55 mile (40-85km) crater in the Chesapeake Bay, in the ...

That impact left a 60-mile-wide crater - known today as the Popigai crater - in northern Siberia. These two asteroid strikes formed the fourth and fifth largest known craters on Earth ...

The rocks, both several miles wide, hit Earth about 25,000 years apart, leaving the 60-mile (100km) Popigai crater in Siberia, Russia, and the 25-55 mile (40-85km) crater in the Chesapeake Bay ...

One asteroid's diameter was between 5 and 8 kilometers (3-5 miles) and created the Popigai crater in Siberia, a depression 100 kilometers (60 miles) across. Another asteroid 3 to 5 kilometers (2-3 ...

The rocks, both several miles wide, hit Earth about 25,000 years apart, leaving the 60-mile (100km) Popigai crater in Siberia, Russia, and the 25-55 mile (40-85km) crater in the Chesapeake Bay, in the ...

Although the crater's age means it is one of the ... 1,800 million years ago, 130km diameter Popigai, Siberia, Russia: 35 million years ago, 100km diameter Manicouagan, Quebec, Canada: 215 million ...

An image of the basin is displayed in NASA's globe software WorldWind. The Popigai Crater, situated in Siberia, formed around 35 million years ago. The eastern side of the crater, spanning 100 km ...