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.

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 ...

Craters, clusters, rings, islands, and young stars -- the universe is filled with wonder no matter where you point a camera, ...

A team of researchers has uncovered a remarkably intact impact structure that is now known as the Jinlin crater. The crater is tucked into a granite hillside near Zhaoqing in Guangdong Province. The ...

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, ...