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 ...

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, researchers from ...

Crater Lake’s stunning blue waters are just the beginning of what makes this natural wonder so captivating. Beneath the surface – both literally and figuratively – lies a world of mysteries, strange ...

Scientists have found that we may have been wrong about how the Moon’s largest crater, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, formed roughly 4.3 billion years ago. As detailed in a new paper published in ...

In September 2025, an X post (archived) viewed over 1 million times claimed the world's biggest meteorite impact crater was in Mexico and included a video of the purported site. The video and claim ...

It's been 19 years since 8-year-old Samuel Boehlke ran into the woods at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon never to be seen again, but search and rescuers haven't given up looking for him. Agencies ...

"It is very rewarding to have finally found the silver bullet." After two decades of debate, researchers say they finally have definitive proof that the Silverpit Crater, a buried structure in the ...

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 ...