In 2021, a crater formed by a meteorite impact was discovered in Iran County, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, China, not far from the Korean Peninsula. This marks the second time a meteorite ...

it has taken a long time to recognize certain structures as impact craters. The town of Nördingen in Bavaria, Germany that dates to the 9 th century is centrally located in the Ries crater. It was not ...

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 ...

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 ...

The impact crater could be linked to the origins of life on Earth. The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way ...

Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater. Located in Western Australia, the crater has been dated to about 3.5 billion years ago, at a time when these almost ...

Scientists in Australia say they’ve found the world’s oldest impact crater, surpassing the previous record-holder’s age by more than 1.25 billion years. The meteorite impact—in Western ...

The Hailin impact crater is a newly-discovered scar in the mountains of Northeast China left behind by a meteor impact, but geologists aren't sure exactly when this happened. When you purchase ...

According to NASA, Vredefort Crater located in South Africa is the largest and oldest impact crater on Earth. It's also a UNESCO World Heritage site, known for its rich biodiversity.

This is the largest known impact crater in South America. The large circular depression in western Bavaria and eastern Baden-Württemberg is known as the Nördlinger Ries, a huge impact crater ...

The impact occurred at the equator of Mars in a region humanity has named Elysium Planitia; it left behind a main, 8.6-mile (13.9-km) wide and 0.62-mile (1-km) deep crater called Corinto.

The team running the aptly named High Resolution Imaging Experiment, or HIRISE camera, recently released a detailed image of this impact crater. "A Small, Very Recent Impact Crater," they succinct ...