Satellites have captured amazing views views of these craters on Earth. ESA explains. Nördlinger Ries, Ouarkziz Crater, ...

When an asteroid slammed into what is now Lake Lappajärvi in Finland some 78 million years ago, it unleashed unimaginable ...

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

China’s newly confirmed largest impact crater from the Holocene reveals rare geological evidence of a massive ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into what is now Mexico, forming the Chicxulub crater. This impact wiped out ...

As astronauts prepare for south-polar landings, a new look at the Moon’s biggest crater points to a pivotal moment in lunar ...

Scientists discover large bowl-shaped impact crater, the fifth found in China and the first in the country’s southern region.

A new study reveals that the largest lunar crater, South Pole-Aitken basin, was formed by an oblique impact that shaped the ...

Researchers have gained new insights into rhinoceros evolution and the longevity of the North Atlantic Land Bridge from ...

Karl Karlstrom, a geologist recently retired from the University of New Mexico, grew up in Flagstaff, Arizona. Grand Canyon ...

The Jinlin impact crater in south China’s Guangdong Province has been confirmed as the largest known crater on Earth since the Holocene period, which spans from 11,700 years ago to the present, the ...

New research reveals the Moon's colossal South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by an asteroid striking from the north, not the ...