Satellites have captured amazing views views of these craters on Earth. ESA explains. Nördlinger Ries, Ouarkziz Crater, ...

Geology is full of detective stories about the Earth's history, and a new paper in Geology by University of New Mexico Distinguished Professors Emeritus Karl Karlstrom and Laurie Crossey, along with ...

Early in the morning of October 6, 2008, astronomers at the University of Arizona detected an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. When other sightings cropped up across the world, the ...

They're stronger and more impactful than we ever knew.

Scientists have discovered a massive asteroid impact crater in China. The bowl-shaped depression is some 900 meters wide—more than eight times the length of a football field. In a paper published last ...

A quiet hillside in southern China holds the mark of something that arrived with enormous force from far beyond our planet. The Jinlin crater, tucked into the low mountains of Guangdong Province, ...

For this week's edition of Drone Zone, we head to Winslow to check out the Meteor Crater. It was formed 50,000 years ago, and is the size of 20 football fields. The crater has fascinated scientists ...

Pune: Formed 50,000 years ago, India's only basaltic meteor impact crater — a geological marvel that scientists study as a ...