New uranium-lead dating of zircons from Oklahoma’s buried Ames impact structure points to a Late Devonian age near 370 ...

A meteor crater buried beneath Oklahoma has turned out to be nearly 100 million years younger than scientists thought. Zircon crystals show the Ames impact occurred about 370 million years ago, ...

According to a recently published study in Meteoritics & Planetary Science, researchers dated zircon crystals from the site and found that the Ames crater likely formed about 370 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What began as a search for hiking routes on Google Maps ended with the possible discovery of what researchers say may one of the ...

Nothing makes for a perfect camping trip quite like a lake, fresh air and a gigantic hole caused by an equally gigantic killer rock. Amateur astronomer Joël Lapointe was planning his next trip to Côte ...

When Joël Lapointe was planning an epic camping trip through the Côte-Nord region of Quebec on Google Maps, an area gave him pause for thought: it looked like a giant meteor crater. “I get lots of ...

A hidden crater in South Korea may hold clues to one of the biggest turning points in Earth’s history: the rise of oxygen. Scientists discovered fossil-like stromatolites — layered structures built by ...

Ages ago, before humans lived in North America, a space rock pierced the atmosphere and screamed in a blaze of light toward the surface of the Earth. Oh, the catastrophe it must have been when the ...

Zircon crystals reveal that a meteor struck Oklahoma nearly 100 million years later than believed, around the time of a major mass extinction.

What began as a search for hiking routes on Google Maps ended with the possible discovery of what researchers say may one of the largest meteorite impact craters identified in recent years. Joël ...