Around 2 billion years ago, an asteroid crashed near present-day Johannesburg, carving out what is now the world’s largest known crater. The impact initially put a dent in Earth’s surface that ...

The discovery of what seems to be a second impact crater on the other side of the Atlantic, of a very similar age, is raising these questions. It's not as big as the one we know at Chicxulub in ...

New images shared by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been circling the moon since 2009, have revealed the location of the unusual crater. The impact created two craters that ...

In the absence of an impact crater, tektite strewn fields provide the next best record of Earth-shattering meteorite strikes. Jourdan’s 2019 dating of the tektites, found today across much of ...

In the journal Science Advances, scientists on Wednesday reported that a huge, buried pit off the coast of Guinea in West Africa had all of the appearances of an impact crater made by a meteor.

The impact crater could be linked to the origins of life on Earth. The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way ...

Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater. Located in Western Australia, the crater has been dated to about 3.5 billion years ago, at a time when these almost ...

Nearly 200 impact craters have been discovered on Earth (SN: 12/18/18), the vast majority of which are on land. That’s because impact craters at sea gradually become buried under sediment ...

A new crater has appeared on the moon, and it was likely created when Russia’s uncrewed Luna 25 mission crashed into the lunar surface. Images taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and ...