About 35 million years ago, an asteroid struck the ocean off the East Coast of North America, leaving behind a massive impact ...

A crescent-shaped crater in Northeast China holds the record as the largest impact crater on Earth that formed in the last 100,000 years. Prior to 2020, the only other impact crater ever ...

Scientists have long thought that the South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by a shallow-angle impact, but new research suggests ...

Scientists put their “stamp” on prehistory after discovering a massive dinosaur footprint in Mongolia said to have belonged to one of the largest ... the Earth. The colossal clomp crater ...

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 ...

Approximately 200 such craters have been discovered on Earth. The scientists estimate ... it could correlate with the largest mass extinction ever--the Permian extinctions, which wiped out more ...

It also imaged polar craters suspected of hosting ice and whose floors may be in permanent shadow. Despite Mercury being about 39% as far from the sun as Earth is, its surface temperature can ...

On Earth, smaller impact sites are erased relatively quickly, with only the largest craters sticking around for us to find. Determining when the Moon was under bombardment from space rocks can ...

The crater is 286 miles wide — twice the size of the largest impact crater on Earth, Vredefort Crater. Schiaparelli has multiple smaller craters inside of it. How the exquisite ridges in this ...

The image features Phobos’ largest crater, Stickney ... for Mars Phobos may be Mars' biggest Moon but in comparison to Earth’s Moon, it’s pretty small with a radius of only 11 kilometres.