China has quietly confirmed that a vast circular scar in its northeast is not a volcanic basin or a quirk of erosion, but a ...

A quiet hillside in southern China holds the mark of something that arrived with enormous force from far beyond our planet.

At 900 meters, the giant crater in southern China is three times larger than the previous Holocene recorder holder.

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.

Deep in the Libyan Sahara lies Jabal Arkanū, a massive, near-perfect set of stone rings once mistaken for a meteorite impact ...

Russian authorities claim to have found the impact sites of some of the fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteor, according to the RIA Novosti news agency. Two have been found near Chebarkul Lake—one of ...

He’s a natural-born search engine. A Canadian man researching an upcoming camping trip via Google Maps has uncovered what experts believe to be a gigantic crater — left by an ancient space rock. Joël ...

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When a gargantuan space rock, estimated to be the size of four Mount Everests, crashed into Earth more than 3 billion years ago, many may assume that it would have wreaked havoc on a young planet.

Right here on Earth are some outstanding examples of meteorite and asteroid impact craters and other visible impact ...

A meteorite impact thousands of years ago may have triggered a landslide in the Grand Canyon and reshaped the Colorado River that runs through the national park. Geologists studying driftwood and lake ...

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off the ...