A giant impact crater on the moon may contain primordial pieces of the lunar mantle and remnants of an ancient magma ocean, ...

A map of Antarctica showing gravity data ... then it "would be the greatest impact crater known" on Earth in terms of its size, the authors wrote. In the 2015 study, researchers found that the ...

Elevation data shows the lunar South Pole-Aitken Basin, the largest and oldest impact basin on the moon, in blue and purple. | Credit: NASA/GSFC/University of Arizona A giant impact crater on the ...

New research in Sweden has uncovered perplexingly high methane emissions coming from the largest meteorite crater ... impact at Siljan, which could have carried organic matter deep into the Earth ...

The colossal impact event, which triggered a mass extinction event over much of Earth's land and ocean ... A gravity anomaly map of the Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan Peninsula.

Once upon a starlit evening in December 2024, astronomers discovered something small, fast and potentially very rude hurtling ...

The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after analyzing deeply drilled rock core from the impact site created by ...

a deeply eroded valley or a meteor impact crater, according to a 2015 paper. For that paper, scientists used satellite remote sensing techniques to map the crater and determine its physical ...