By analyzing how far material ejected from an impact crater flies, scientists can locate buried glaciers and other ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA has confirmed the Moon is a bit messier and a mystery has deepened after its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft discovered the double impact crater of a rocket booster that ...

Impact craters play a crucial role in estimating the model ages of geological units on the moon and other solid bodies in the solar system. Scholars typically fit mathematical functions to ...

“The geophysical evidence of an impact crater is pretty solid,” said David Kring, a planetary geologist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston who helped to confirm the Chicxulub ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet's stages of evolution.

Spanning 25 miles in diameter, this crater is three times the size of the Grand Canyon, making it the largest known impact site in the U.S. and the 15th largest on Earth.

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 ...

Confirming that the structure is an impact crater will require drilling for solid evidence, such as shocked quartz, he says. Alternative explanations for the structure’s identity include a ...

Based on the size of the Vredefort crater, the enormous impact scar left by the gargantuan space rock in what is now South Africa, researchers recently estimated that the epic impactor could have ...