New research shows that meteoroid impacts on Mars generate seismic signals that travel much deeper than previously thought, ...

Two canyons that splay out from a vast asteroid crater on the moon may have been quickly formed by chains of impacts that ...

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

Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...

The chemical makeup of mineral inclusions preserved in impact glass hints at the site of a missing impact crater.

Imagine that the Earth was hit by an asteroid the size of the World Trade Center. What would happen? Scientists have modeled ...

Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

If the asteroid (estimated to be between 130 and 330 feet wide) were to collide with Earth, it could lead to an air burst — exploding as it enters the atmosphere — or an impact crater. In either ...

The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of Earth's natural wonders, carved out over millions of years by the gradual erosion power ...

Heinrich added that most of the meteorite, itself, vaporized on impact. Meanwhile, the mile-wide hole, itself, has been erased by erosion. Still, the Brushy Creek Crater's outline thrives.

the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10-15 kilometer in diameter, struck the Yucatán Peninsula (in current-day Mexico), creating a 200-kilometer-wide impact crater. This impact triggered a ...