More than 50,000 years ago, a meteor hit Earth and formed what we now call Meteor Crater in northern Arizona. But new ...

A 2021 satellite photo shows off the recently uncovered Yilan crater in China, which is most likely the youngest impact structure on Earth. The incomplete ring is also the largest of its kind and only ...

The massive crater is the focus of a week-long discovery event, offering unique tours, stargazing and lectures.

A vast scar from a cosmic collision has been sitting in southern China, hiding in the landscape so effectively that people lived, farmed, and built over it without realizing they were inside one of ...

Early in the morning of October 6, 2008, astronomers at the University of Arizona detected an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. When other sightings cropped up across the world, the ...

The discovery could lead to insights into the ice age climate, and the effects on it from the eruption of debris that would have resulted from such a cataclysmic collision. The finding suggests that a ...

Scientists have discovered possible aerodynamically-shaped impact spherules in the Ramgarh crater in Rajasthan. The findings strongly point to an iron meteorite striking Rajasthan about 165 million ...

An asteroid the size of a building could collide with the Moon in 2032 and generate a flash visible from Earth.

A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in the U.S., Canada and Italy has found that studying the craters on asteroid Bennu allowed them to calculate how long it has been orbiting ...

A Japanese space mission that has been studying an asteroid not far from Earth will try Thursday night (Friday in Japan) to fire a copper projectile at its surface. The goal is to create a crater on ...

At first glance, you many not guess that this feature on Mars is an impact crater. The reason it looks so unusual is that it likely is a triple impact crater, formed when three asteroids struck all at ...