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

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 ...

Mars Express orbiter captures a slightly elliptical crater measuring roughly 12 miles (20 kilometres) east to wes ...

NASA's Perseverance rover spotted a possible space rock on the surface of Mars. The meteorite's nickname is 'Phippsaksla.' ...

Because of Earth’s weathering climate and shifting tectonics, impact craters regularly disappear from the Earth’s geologic record. Scientists in China found an impact crater that formed during 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, ...

A newly discovered, remarkably well-preserved impact crater is shedding fresh light on how extraterrestrial bodies collide with Earth. In the journal Matter and Radiation at Extremes, researchers from ...

We’ve identified only around 200 meteorite craters worldwide, and there’s a very good reason for that: they’re hard to find. Craters get eroded and covered by vegetation and soil, and this new crater ...

A massive, well-preserved impact crater has been uncovered in Guangdong, revealing the signature of a powerful meteorite strike during the Holocene. Measuring 900 meters across, it dwarfs other known ...

Astronomers can sometimes capture meteors striking the surface of the moon with relatively small telescopes on Earth. Credit: Morteza Nikoubazl / NurPhoto / Getty Images A space rock slammed into the ...