Beneath East Antarctica’s thick ice lies the Wilkes Land anomaly — a possible meteorite impact crater over 500 km wide. This mysterious formation may be the largest crater on Earth, with a mascon at ...

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 ...

The iron meteorite that blasted out Meteor Crater almost 50,000 years ago was traveling much slower than has been assumed, University of Arizona Regents’ Professor H. Jay Melosh and Gareth Collins of ...

A “mystery rocket” crashed into the moon and left a double crater, NASA reports. That’s something new. NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University photo A “mystery rocket body” crashed into the Moon and ...

If you need one more reason to worry about warming global temperatures, you can add the ground spontaneously blowing up to the list. In 2014, a bizarre crater was found in Siberia’s Yamal Peninsula.