Thousands of years ago, a space rock hit what is now China, leaving a bowl-shaped crater some 900 meters wide ...

Scientists have unveiled the Nadir crater, a 5-mile wide undersea structure off the coast of West Africa, believed to have ...

We’ve identified only around 200 meteorite craters worldwide, and there’s a very good reason for that: they’re hard to find.

A team of researchers has uncovered a remarkably intact impact structure that is now known as the Jinlin crater.

A mong the hilly forests of southern China, scientists have discovered the largest modern meteorite impact crater on Earth.

A massive, well-preserved impact crater has been uncovered in Guangdong, revealing the signature of a powerful meteorite ...

When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, ...

Bursts of light captured crashing into the moon last week were caused by dual asteroid strikes against the lunar surface that ...

WINSLOW, AZ (AZFamily) — An asteroid hit the Earth in what is now known as northern Arizona about 50,000 years ago. It left a giant crater that draws people from all over the world. Nestled between ...

"If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, it will (statistically speaking) be the largest impact in approximately 5,000 years," ...