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

A newly discovered, remarkably well-preserved impact crater is shedding fresh light on how extraterrestrial bodies collide with Earth. In the journal Matter and Radiation at Extremes, by AIP ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact struck with such force that it carved out a vast crater, later buried ...

GUANGZHOU, 24 October (BelTA - Xinhua) - The Jinlin impact crater in south China's Guangdong Province has been confirmed as the largest known crater on Earth since the Holocene period, which spans ...

So if you come expecting a crater with a rim, you will miss the point entirely.

Unravelling Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history with rocks is tricky business. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This article was ...

Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest — but an independent analysis shows they might be off by at least 800 million years. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...