A newly discovered crater off the coast of West Africa was likely caused by an asteroid more than 400 meters wide that hit the Earth around the same time as the space rock that doomed the ...

Dr. Uisdean Nicholson of Heriot-Watt University in Scotland first discovered hints of the Nadir Crater in 2022. But it wasn’t until now, with the help of detailed 3D seismic data, that the full ...

The asteroid that created the Nadir crater measured around 450-500m wide, and scientists think it hit Earth at about 72,000km/h. The nearest humans have come to this scale of event was the ...

The second asteroid's impact site is called the Nadir crater. Rock was liquified, launching a tsunami into the Atlantic Ocean. The Age of Dinosaurs Ended With Not One but Two Asteroids, Scientists ...

Discovered in 2022, the Nadir crater lies off the coast of Guinea, West Africa. The 400m-wide asteroid created a crater 8.5km in diameter. The exact timing of the impact is unknown, although it ...

The team estimated that the Nadir asteroid hit the Earth traveling at about 12.43 miles per second (20 kilometers per second), or nearly 45,000 miles per hour (72,000 km/hr).

This crater, named "Nadir" after the nearby Nadir Seamount volcano, is thought to be the same age as the Chicxulub impact, caused by a massive asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous period. ...

A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth.The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of ...

The Nadir crater is one of the most meticulously documented marine craters on Earth, and further study could provide more insight into this event itself, ...

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed. A second, smaller space rock smashed into the sea off the coast of West ...