China has quietly confirmed that a vast circular scar in its northeast is not a volcanic basin or a quirk of erosion, but a colossal asteroid impact site that ranks as the largest known crater of its ...

Most of us have probably seen a shooting star, but our meteor knowledge likely stops there, with all the gaps filled by myths ...

A quiet hillside in southern China holds the mark of something that arrived with enormous force from far beyond our planet. The Jinlin crater, tucked into the low mountains of Guangdong Province, ...

Geology is full of detective stories about the Earth's history, and a new paper in Geology by University of New Mexico Distinguished Professors Emeritus Karl Karlstrom and Laurie Crossey, along with ...

Because of Earth’s weathering climate and shifting tectonics, impact craters regularly disappear from the Earth’s geologic record. Scientists in China found an impact crater that formed during the ...

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This piece is part of a special project on deep time examining what the Western U.S. was like thousands, millions and even billions of years ago, and how that history is still visible and ...

Scientists have discovered a massive asteroid impact crater in China. The bowl-shaped depression is some 900 meters wide—more than eight times the length of a football field. In a paper published last ...

Brazil is host to a newly found field of natural glass created from meteorite impacts, according to a new study. The natural glass is known as a tektite, which occurs after terrestrial rocks are ...

A new study reveals a previously unknown meteorite impact that took place in northeastern Brazil some 6.3 million years ago. An international team of scientists found a 900-kilometer-long "strewn ...