Mysterious driftwood high in Grand Canyon caves hints at the legacy of Arizona’s huge impact crater.

For a long time, the end of the Ice Age felt like a slow fading rather than a sharp break. Mammoths vanished. Old ways of living disappeared. The climate lurched colder again, without much warning.

While Earth was famously hit by a meteor that killed off the dinosaurs, many others have also hit our planet, many of them leaving huge scars in their wake.

WETUMPKA, Ala. (WSFA) - The city of Wetumpka is getting a financial boost to support the development of the Wetumpka impact Crater, one of the state’s most significant geological and tourism assets.

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 ...

It feels like every company used to produce several concept cars each year that fueled the imagination of burgeoning car enthusiasts everywhere. Every auto show you went to was littered with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Nov 20, 2025, 08:01am EST Nov 21, 2025, 11:53am EST Aerial view ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...