Geologists first pieced together the story of the Chesapeake Bay impact crater in the 1990s. It’s the largest known bolide strike in the U.S. and among the largest in the world.

The location of the crater in Chesapeake Bay. It is now completely covered by younger sediments, but was discovered in the early 1990s by marine geophysical surveys and subsequent drilling.

WASHINGTON (CN) — Federal grant freezes and proposed cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency's impact on the Chesapeake Bay worry lawmakers and environmental organizations. "The Chesapeake Bay ...

The bay crater is the largest in the United States and the sixth largest of 170 known impact craters in the world. A number of factors make it an ideal place for exploration.

ANNAPOLIS — The health of the Chesapeake Bay declined in an annual report card on the nation’s largest estuary released Tuesday, with scientists noting the effect of extreme rainfall patterns ...

The Chesapeake Bay’s blue crab population has fallen to its second-lowest level since 1990, down 25% from last year, according to an annual study published Thursday.