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

Two bright meteors were caught slamming into the moon on Thursday (Oct. 30) and Saturday (Nov. 1), by Japanese astronomer ...

Solving a lunar mystery? Scientist at the University of Arizona is the lead author on research proposing a new theory for the ...

As astronauts prepare for south-polar landings, a new look at the Moon’s biggest crater points to a pivotal moment in lunar history—and to the rocks you’ll want sampled next. A study led by Jeffrey ...

The two lunar impacts were picked up by Daichi Fujii, a curator at the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan, who keeps his ...

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

When an asteroid slammed into what is now Lake Lappajärvi in Finland some 78 million years ago, it unleashed unimaginable ...

A heartwarming video captures a tiny hippo struggling to climb a slippery rock in Serengeti National Park, determined to keep ...

Scientists verify China’s Jinlin crater in Guangdong as Earth’s largest Holocene impact site, measuring 900 meters wide and ...

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

In the heart of the Australian desert, scientists have made an extraordinary discovery—tiny glassy spheres that hint at a ...

The Jinlin impact crater in south China’s Guangdong Province has been confirmed as the largest known crater on Earth since the Holocene period, which spans from 11,700 years ago to the present, the ...