"I've never seen anything like it before," the hiker noted of the historic meteorite impact site in the viral TikTok clip.

The Bungle Bungle Range in Western Australia is a collection of rock domes forged from ancient seabeds and flanked to the northeast by a prehistoric meteor impact crater.

The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back three images of Mercury after a brief flyby of the planet on Jan. 8, 2025.

the fourth- and fifth-largest asteroid craters on Earth. But what happened after they hit is puzzling to scientists. They found no evidence of a lasting shift in climate some 150,000 years later.

NASA’s Curiosity rover is skygazing and photographing lovely examples of noctilucent clouds on Mars. The wispy formations ...

Earth's only permanent natural satellite is ... The biggest and oldest of these scars is a monster crater, one of the largest, not just on the Moon, but in the entire Solar System.

Approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10–15 kilometers in diameter, struck the Yucatán ...

But the researchers don’t know why two hit Earth close together. Getty Images The asteroid that created the Nadir crater measured around 450-500m wide, and scientists think it hit Earth at about ...

A breathtaking image from the ISS shows Ksudach volcano with its vibrant landscape, shaped by volcanic forces, resulting in ...

Earth's Most Ancient Impact Craters Are Disappearing Aug. 1, 2023 — Earth's oldest craters could give scientists critical information about the structure of the early Earth and the composition ...