Viewers in New York will get a chance to see Vesta close to opposition after the sun goes down on May 2. The asteroid will ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered what they say is the largest asteroid impact area ever found on Earth. WSJ's Monika Auger reports. Photo: A. Clikson Leo XIV: What the First American Pope ...

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An account of the discovery and exploration of the two-mile crater on the barrens near Hudson Bay. If it is conclusively shown to be meteoritic, it is the largest yet found on earth By V. B. Meen ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. The Yarrabubba impact structure in remote Western Australia is the oldest known asteroid crater on Earth, according to a study published ...

An asteroid that size, moving at 20 miles a second, can punch out a crater more than a mile wide, slamming into Earth with 80 megatons of energy, more than the largest hydrogen bomb ever exploded.

NASA's Curiosity Rover has discovered long carbon chains on Mars. On Earth, molecules like these are overwhelmingly produced by biological processes.

New research in Sweden has uncovered perplexingly high methane emissions coming from the largest meteorite crater in Europe ... organic matter deep into the Earth, where it continues to produce ...