China’s newly confirmed largest impact crater from the Holocene reveals rare geological evidence of a massive ...

The end of the dinosaurs was clearly linked to an asteroid impact that brought the Cretaceous period to a close. But the ...

A new study reveals that the largest lunar crater, South Pole-Aitken basin, was formed by an oblique impact that shaped the ...

Recent research has shed light on the role of the Moon’s largest impact crater in explaining the stark visual and geological ...

As astronauts prepare for south-polar landings, a new look at the Moon’s biggest crater points to a pivotal moment in lunar ...

Could Artemis III astronauts collect some lunar samples that shed light on the moon's mysterious past? That's what a team of ...

Solving a lunar mystery? Scientist at the University of Arizona is the lead author on research proposing a new theory for the ...

Roughly 45 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the seabed of what is now the North Sea, triggering a tsunami ...

Look south of the moon's equator on Oct. 4 to find Mare Nubium (Latin for "the Sea of Clouds") darkening a vast swathe of the ...

The claim that the world's biggest impact crater is in Mexico was false. The video does not show the world's biggest impact crater or even a crater in Mexico; it's a video of a volcanic crater, ...

Before humans send probes to space to mine for precious metals on asteroids, they could find vast quantities of minerals like platinum on the Moon’s craters, a new study suggests. Minerals like ...

Researchers have found evidence of a previously unknown asteroid impact, but the crater is still at large. The clues of this bygone cataclysm consist of tektites—a type of natural glass that forms ...