Joel Lapointe was scouring the Cote-Nord region of Quebec for potential camping spots when he saw something unusual. There appeared to be a 15km wide circle surrounding Marsal Lake. Intrigued by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered living microbes producing methane in the fractured rocks deep inside Sweden's Siljan impact crater ...

Vienna — Drillings made in the Bosumtwi crater in Ghana, one of the youngest meteorite craters in the world, led to yet another mysterious finding — the rock formation caused by the heat of the ...

If you see something unusual, don't overlook it. It could just be an ancient discovery. Joël Lapointe from Quebec, Canada, was investigating the Côte-Nord region ahead of a camping trip using Google ...

Impact craters are formed when an object from space such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet strikes the Earth at a very high velocity. This leaves an excavated circular hole on the Earth’s surface. It ...

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.

Aaron J. Cavosie has received funding from Australian Research Council and the Space Science and Technology Centre at Curtin University. How Earth and the other planets of the solar system formed and ...