THE world’s oldest-known crater from an asteroid smash 3.5 billion years ago has been discovered in the Australian outback.

The Chicxulub impactor, as it is called, was somewhere between 10 and 15 kilometres in diameter. The collision was devastating: rocks from deep within Earth’s crust were raised 25 kilometres ...

As the theory goes, a 6-mile-wide meteor plunged into Earth near modern-day Chicxulub on the Yucatan peninsula. The impact launched vaporized rock and debris into the air, covering the planet in a ...

Scientists have set the potential impact date for the 2024 YR4 asteroid as December 22, 2032. Where could it hit? Ultimately, it is too soon to know where it might land if it did hit Earth.

NASA's new observations of the asteroid, named 2024 YR4, led to a 2.3 per cent probability of hitting Earth on 22 December 2032.

Until now, a crater called Yarrabubba held the title of the oldest meteor strike site ... that resulted in the extinction of the dinosaurs, Chicxulub crater, which is the second-largest impact ...