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.

The Jinlin crater, measuring 900 meters across, formed during Earth’s current geological epoch. A recently identified and exceptionally well-preserved impact crater is offering scientists new insight ...

"It sounds like science fiction or the stuff of Hollywood movies." ...

About the extinction of the dinosaurs, there are different theories. However, the most accredited is that their end was ...

Thousands of years ago, a space rock hit what is now China, leaving a bowl-shaped crater some 900 meters wide ...

Scientists have unveiled the Nadir crater, a 5-mile wide undersea structure off the coast of West Africa, believed to have been formed by an asteroid impact that coincided with the extinction of the ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed flourishing communities. Alamosaurus was one of the last dinosaurs from ...

Bursts of light captured crashing into the moon last week were caused by dual asteroid strikes against the lunar surface that were likely strong enough to form hulking craters, according to videos ...

A new study reveals that the impact of the Meteor crater may have caused a landslide that flooded the Grand Canyon 56,000 years ago.

Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass extinction. New research suggests dinosaur populations were still ...

Some of the last dinosaurs in the world were healthy and thriving right up until the day they were annihilated by asteroid Armageddon, a new study on fossils from New Mexico finds. Researchers dated ...