The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet's stages of evolution.

For once, Earth isn’t the one in the crosshairs. NASA scientists have confirmed that a fast-moving asteroid first spotted by ...

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

A giant asteroid impact crater, sitting 300 meters beneath the Atlantic Ocean floor, has been confirmed as the result of a ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into what is now Mexico, forming the Chicxulub crater. This impact wiped out the dinosaurs and around 75% of all species on Earth at the time. But ...

Researchers have confirmed the discovery of a massive asteroid strike that created a conspicuous crater in southern China’s Guangdong province approximately 10,000 years ago, during a ...

The iron meteorite that blasted out Meteor Crater almost 50,000 years ago was traveling much slower than has been assumed, University of Arizona Regents’ Professor H. Jay Melosh and Gareth Collins of ...

New images of an asteroid impact crater buried deep below the floor of the Atlantic Ocean have been published by researchers at Heriot-Watt University. The images confirm the 9km Nadir Crater, located ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet's stages of evolution.

Last week, a handful of watching telescopes captured something crashing into the moon. Then over the weekend, a second object ...