Two NASA spacecraft at Mars — one on the surface and the other in orbit — have recorded the biggest meteor strikes and impact craters yet. The high-speed barrages last year sent seismic waves rippling ...
A new study reveals that the impact of the Meteor crater may have caused a landslide that flooded the Grand Canyon 56,000 ...
The Odessa Meteor Crater wouldn’t have looked like much more than a shallow indentation on the flat landscape to the first people who saw it. Long before I-20 dissected the Permian Basin, the ...
Japanese astronomer Daichi Fujii captured two bright flashes on the Moon, the result of meteors hitting the lunar surface at ...
About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into what is now Mexico, forming the Chicxulub crater. This impact wiped out ...
Scientists in China have confirmed the discovery of the largest known impact crater formed on Earth during the Holocene period, which began around 11,700 years ago. The Jinlin impact crater, located ...