[Xinhua] BEIJING - Based on research on lunar samples retrieved by Chang'e-6 mission, a team of Chinese scientists confirmed that the oldest and largest impact crater on the moon, the South Pole ...

The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula.

Why it's incredible: Evidence suggests it could be the greatest known impact crater on Earth. The Wilkes Land crater is a hole in the bedrock beneath East Antarctica's ice sheet measuring 315 ...

Chinese scientists, using lunar soil samples brought back by Chang'e-6, have determined that the Moon's oldest and largest impact crater, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin, was formed 4.25 billion ...

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.

Based on research on lunar samples retrieved by Chang'e-6 mission, a team of Chinese scientists confirmed that the oldest and largest impact crater on the moon, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the ...

New research in Sweden has uncovered perplexingly high methane emissions coming from the largest meteorite crater in Europe. The Siljan Ring is a prehistoric impact structure in central Sweden ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...

It was the worst day for the stock market since 2020 as investors absorbed the potential impact of an escalating trade war. NBC News’ Christine Romans reports on how the Trump administration is ...