Researchers from Shanghai and Guangzhou, China have discovered an impact crater. It sits on the side of a hill in Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province. They've given it the name Jinlin crater. The team ...

A mong 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 ...

The scale of impacts of small extraterrestrial objects on the Earth in the Holocene is far greater than previously recorded, said Ming Chen, lead author from the Center for High Pressure Science and ...

On November 17, 2025, scientists announced the discovery of the world’s largest “modern” impact crater in southern China. The Jinlin crater, located near Zhaoqing City in Guangdong Province, had ...

A surprising new discovery of the Jinlin crater in Southern China is clarifying how celestial objects collide with Earth.The study published in the journal Matter and Radiation at ...

Researchers confirmed the impact origin of the Jinlin crater: a 900-meter-wide remarkably young impact crater preserved on a ...

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

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact struck with such force that it carved out a vast crater, later buried ...

As astronauts prepare for south-polar landings, a new look at the Moon’s biggest crater points to a pivotal moment in lunar history—and to the rocks you’ll want sampled next. A study led by Jeffrey ...

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 ...