Earth has only one natural satellite, the moon, which is relatively large compared to its parent planet. It orbits Earth at ...

The Moon's surface is covered by impact craters, ranging from microscopic pits to massive basins over 1,000 kilometers across ...

A massive meteorite strike 3.5 billion years ago left behind the world’s oldest known impact crater ... he said. Such ...

Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence suggests the subglacial hole is an impact crater measuring 315 miles across.

The images have helped the researchers determine what happened in the minutes following impact: The formation ... processes, noted, "3D seismic images of a fully preserved impact crater are ...

Cores extracted from the impact crater revealed evidence of an ancient, life-nurturing hydrothermal system in the wake of the catastrophe.

NASA's Curiosity Rover has discovered long carbon chains on Mars. On Earth, molecules like these are overwhelmingly produced ...

Study co-author Sean Gulick, a research professor at The University of Texas at Austin, with a core sample from the Chicxulub crater ... impact, the Gulf of Mexico records an ecological recovery ...

Scientists have have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.