But the team didn’t find a giant crater basin—after all, 3.5 billion years is plenty of time for erosion to do its thing. Instead, they found the next best option: a rock formation known as ...

The feature lurks dozens of miles beneath a 1,550-mile-wide impact crater called the South Pole-Aitken Basin, which we can't see from Earth. Ideas for what the mysterious lump may be include the ...

A team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Manchester analysed a lunar meteorite to learn more about the impact basin. The researchers have concluded that the crater was formed ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater in Western ...

The first study on the Moon samples brought back by the Chinese Chang'e-6 mission show that the Moon's far side was just as molten as the near one eons ago.

From the rover's point of view on the ground, it's hard to tell, but this ancient shoreline on Mars seemed to lie inside a 2,050-mile-wide (3,300-kilometer-wide) impact crater called Utopia Basin.

Crater Lake sits in a rugged portion of the Cascade Range and is famous for its deep, jewel-blue water. An impressive 20-mile ring of cliffs encloses the basin and adds to its magnificence. About a ...

Researchers in Western Australia’s Pilbara region have discovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater, pushing ...