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

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Most of the recognized impact craters on Earth are buried under sediments or have been deeply ...

Geologists found traces of an extraterrestrial impact from the Eocene epoch and a subsequent tsunami in the Paint Hill area ...

Correspondent Serhiy Horbatenko of RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service travelled to the village of Yarova in Ukraine’s Donetsk region ...

Geologists in North Carolina’s Sandhills have uncovered direct evidence of a late Eocene meteorite impact and tsunami, linked to the Chesapeake Bay impact structure. Led by G. Robert Ganis, this ...

The Chicxulub Impact Crater, located on the Yucatán Peninsula, represents one of Earth’s most significant impact structures and offers a unique window into catastrophic processes that reshaped the ...

NASA has created a flyover animation of an impact crater on Mars that was captured using the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera. Credit: NASA/JPL- ...

A new study dates a Scottish meteorite impact to 990 million years ago, changing the timeline of complex life on Earth.

The study of impact crater geology and shock metamorphism offers a vital window into the extreme conditions that have shaped planetary surfaces. Impact events, whether from solitary projectiles or ...

The Rosalind Franklin mission's chance of finding evidence of past life on Mars has been boosted by two studies that show ...

NASA's Perseverance robot spotted the intriguing rock on Aug. 31 and stopped to snap a photograph. It was exploring Jezero ...