Google Maps is used by millions of folks for navigation. However, one man accidentally discovered a meteorite impact site ...

Scientists confirmed the astronomer’s suspicions with an expedition to the site in Quebec. The discovery offers a rare case of a reported new crater turning out to be real ...

Arizona's Meteor Crater remains 'the perfect natural laboratory' for studying what happens when meteors strike Earth, scientists say.

An amateur astronomer from Quebec spotted an unusual circular depression while planning a camping and road trip through the ...

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The oldest asteroid crater on the Earth is over 3 billion years old, according to a new study that sheds more light on our planet's earliest history. Researchers from Curtin University investigated ...

A 3-billion-year-old impact structure in Western Australia rewrites what scientists know about Earth’s earliest and most violent chapter. Deep in the ancient rock country of Western Australia, ...

Lonar Lake in Maharashtra was formed by a meteorite impact. Here is why its unusual water, ancient temples and crater trails make it worth visiting.

An ancient crater in South Korea may be preserving clues to a major shift in Earth's past: the rise of an oxygen-rich atmosphere. Researchers say layered rock structures within the crater could ...

Researchers at Oxford and Aberdeen universities think the time is right for a full geophysical survey of The Minch, to see if the Scottish strait is hiding an ancient meteorite crater, reports The BBC ...

Researchers identified the Chicxulub impactor as an exceptionally rare type of asteroid that wouldn't have triggered a mass extinction in the way scientists previously thought.

Asteroids 2, dinosaurs 0. The infamous space rock that slammed into Earth and helped wipe it clean of large dinosaurs may have been a binary – two asteroids orbiting each other. The dino-killing ...