Researchers from Shanghai and Guangzhou, China have discovered an impact crater. It sits on the side of a hill in Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province. They've given it the name Jinlin crater. The team ...

A large asteroid does not need to hit Earth to expose a hard truth: the most dangerous space rocks may be the ones spotted ...

Around three billion years ago, long before animals, forests, or even complex life existed, a large asteroid struck a young ...

A panoramic aerial drone image of the Jinlin crater with the approximate location of the crater rim labeled, with an insert of the crater floor, which shows a mix of granite weathered soil and granite ...

The crater, 400 kilometers in diameter, was formed between 300 and 600 million years ago, and though it presence on the planet’s surface has been obliterated by geological processes, the effect it had ...

The location of the crater in the Chesapeake Bay is now completely covered by younger sediments. It was discovered in the early 1990s by marine geophysical surveys and subsequent drilling. It is the ...

The Silverpit Crater lies 700 metres (2,300 feet) beneath the North Sea floor. It spans around 3 kilometres (1.9 miles) ...

Even 200 years after asteroid 16 Psyche was discovered, astronomers continue to puzzle over its formation. Psyche is the 10th-most massive asteroid in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter, and the ...