China’s newly confirmed largest impact crater from the Holocene reveals rare geological evidence of a massive ...

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

Satellites have captured amazing views views of these craters on Earth. ESA explains. Nördlinger Ries, Ouarkziz Crater, ...

A new study reveals that the largest lunar crater, South Pole-Aitken basin, was formed by an oblique impact that shaped the ...

Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread. Unravelling Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history with rocks is tricky business. Case ...

Satellite view of the Bosumtwi Impact Crater showing areas of Artisanal and Small scale Gold Mining activities. Credit: David Baratoux Satellite view of the Bosumtwi Impact Crater showing areas of ...

Mars is an inhospitable desert planet. Billions of years ago, things were different. In Jezero Crater, for example, fed by a ...

U.S. astronauts who return to the moon’s surface in the years ahead for the first time in more than half a century will have ...

Sometime in the Middle Eocene epoch, nearly 50 million years ago, a large object hurtled through Earth's atmosphere, crashing into the North Sea between what's now Britain and northwestern Europe.

Researchers discovered a new field of ancient tektites in South Australia, revealing a long-forgotten asteroid impact. These 11-million-year-old glass fragments differ chemically and geographically ...

Earning just $20 a day, workers face extreme conditions mining sulfur in Mount Ijen’s volcanic crater—one of the toughest ...

As of Thursday, Oct. 30, the moon phase is Waxing Gibbous. There will be 59% of the moon lit up tonight, according to NASA's ...