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

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 ...

For this week's edition of Drone Zone, we head to Winslow to check out the Meteor Crater. It was formed 50,000 years ago, and is the size of 20 football fields. The crater has fascinated scientists ...

WINSLOW, AZ (AZFamily) — An asteroid hit the Earth in what is now known as northern Arizona about 50,000 years ago. It left a giant crater that draws people from all over the world. Nestled between ...

Scientists have discovered a massive asteroid impact crater in China. The bowl-shaped depression is some 900 meters wide—more than eight times the length of a football field. In a paper published last ...

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.

I perched on the edge of disaster. Oddly enough, I wanted to laugh, perhaps in a strange effort to reduce the planet’s best ...

A quiet hillside in southern China holds the mark of something that arrived with enormous force from far beyond our planet. The Jinlin crater, tucked into the low mountains of Guangdong Province, ...