Satellites have captured amazing views views of these craters on Earth. ESA explains. Nördlinger Ries, Ouarkziz Crater, ...

A massive meteor struck near Manson, Iowa, 74 million years ago, creating the U.S.'s largest impact crater and reshaping the ...

A newly identified impact scar in southern China has turned a quiet patch of countryside into one of the most important ...

A mile-wide asteroid known as 2005 UK1 will safely pass Earth on Jan. 12, 2026, at 32 times the moon’s distance, posing no ...

Mysterious driftwood high in Grand Canyon caves hints at the legacy of Arizona’s huge impact crater.

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. For a few days in mid-February, headlines around the world ...

Geology is full of detective stories about the Earth's history, and a new paper in Geology by University of New Mexico Distinguished Professors Emeritus Karl Karlstrom and Laurie Crossey, along with ...

Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy. Some geologists were adamant that an asteroid produced the nearly-perfect ...