Among the hilly forests of southern China, scientists have discovered the largest modern meteorite impact crater on Earth. Dubbed the Jinlin crater, the giant pitted scar could become an invaluable ...

China has quietly confirmed that a vast circular scar in its northeast is not a volcanic basin or a quirk of erosion, but a colossal asteroid impact site that ranks as the largest known crater of its ...

A newly discovered, remarkably well-preserved impact crater is shedding fresh light on how extraterrestrial bodies collide with Earth. In the journal Matter and Radiation at Extremes, by AIP ...

Scientists have discovered what they believe is one of the biggest impact craters in the world near the Falklands Islands. They say the crater appears to date to between 270 and 250 million years ago, ...

The South Pole-Aitken impact basin on the far side of the Moon formed in a southward impact (toward the bottom in the image). The basin has a radioactive “KREEP-rich” ejecta blanket on one side of the ...

Scientists are uncovering signs that Earth has been hit by powerful cosmic blasts that leave little trace on the surface yet ...

The moon's heavily cratered surface serves as a testament to how Earth's closest celestial neighbor has become a figurative magnet for space rocks during its 4.5 billion-year history. One of the best ...

The 21 shocked and unshocked zircon crystals dated in this study were separated from this ~30 cubic centimeters of unconsolidated late Eocene sediment obtained from Ocean Drilling Project site 1073, ...

American astronauts who return to the moon's surface in the years ahead for the first time in more than half a century will have the difficult and unprecedented task of setting the stage for a ...