An international team of scientists, including a senior researcher at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, has ...

A newly discovered, remarkably well-preserved impact crater is shedding fresh light on how extraterrestrial bodies collide ...

Thousands of years ago, a space rock hit what is now China, leaving a bowl-shaped crater some 900 meters wide ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

A team of researchers has uncovered a remarkably intact impact structure that is now known as the Jinlin crater.

The scale of impacts of small extraterrestrial objects on the Earth in the Holocene is far greater than previously recorded, ...

A mong the hilly forests of southern China, scientists have discovered the largest modern meteorite impact crater on Earth.

A panoramic aerial drone image of the Jinlin crater with the approximate location of the crater rim labeled, with an insert ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

In August, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) released its most extensive geological map to date. It's called The Cooperative National Geologic Map, and it provides an interactive look at the ...

Coloe Fossae was shaped by powerful tectonics, which stretched and cracked Mars's crust, causing chunks of ground to collapse ...