The discovery of a vast, fresh impact scar on Mars began with what looked like a smudge in a routine weather snapshot. A ...

Scientists initially proposed two possibilities. Either the meteorite entered in an extremely unusual way, or it was moved by ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered what they believe is one of the biggest impact craters in the world near the Falklands Islands. They say the crater appears to date to between 270 and 250 million years ago, ...

Some 200km to the south of Pilansberg lies a very different kind of crater: the Vredefort structure with mountain rings and a circular core known as the Dome. It is a Unesco World Heritage Site, ...

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 ...

The rising water levels in Maharashtra's Lonar Lake have submerged several ancient temples, prompting research into conservation measures. Experts from IIT Bombay are investigating the phenomenon, ...

The 21 shocked and unshocked zircon crystals dated in this study were separated from this ~30 cubic centimeters of unconsolidated late Eocene sediment obtained from Ocean Drilling Project site 1073, ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has made a remarkable discovery: the largest fresh impact crater ever confirmed on Mars, ...