Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...

It is good to be back and there is plenty to explore in the December night sky. Starting on Tuesday is the comet C/2025 T1 Atlas, which makes its closest approach to the sun. There is a supermoon on ...

Scientists have discovered living, methane-producing microbes deep inside a massive meteorite impact crater in Sweden, and ...

China has quietly confirmed that a vast circular scar in its northeast is not a volcanic basin or a quirk of erosion, but a ...

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

It is by far India’s most famous and only fully confirmed meteorite crater lake. Located in the basaltic Deccan Traps, this ...

A French study has focused on a 120-kilometer wide crater located in the northern hemisphere of Mars. New evidence suggests ...

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

TheJinlin crater, an enormous 900 meters across, is the largest known impact site from the Holocene, Earth’s current geological epoch. Remarkably well-preserved and hidden deep within weathered ...

A newly discovered crater in southern China is rewriting what scientists know about Earth’s recent encounters with space debris. Hidden within ancient granite and astonishingly well-preserved, the ...

Right now one of the most advanced planetary explorers ever built is scouring the surface of Mars. Supported by a team of ...

A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in the U.S., Canada and Italy has found that studying the craters on asteroid Bennu allowed them to calculate how long it has been orbiting ...