Joel Lapointe was scouring the Cote-Nord region of Quebec for potential camping spots when he saw something unusual. There appeared to be a 15km wide circle surrounding Marsal Lake. Intrigued by the ...

Countless meteorites have struck Earth in the past and shaped the history of our planet. It is assumed, for example, that meteorites brought with them a large part of its water. The extinction of the ...

Scientists have unveiled the Nadir crater, a 5-mile wide undersea structure off the coast of West Africa, believed to have ...

A new study reveals that the impact of the Meteor crater may have caused a landslide that flooded the Grand Canyon 56,000 ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet's stages of evolution.

Scientists discover large bowl-shaped impact crater, the fifth found in China and the first in the country’s southern region.

A giant asteroid impact crater, sitting 300 meters beneath the Atlantic Ocean floor, has been confirmed as the result of a ...

Researchers have confirmed the discovery of a massive asteroid strike that created a conspicuous crater in southern China’s Guangdong province approximately 10,000 years ago, during a ...

An international team of researchers, including a NASA glaciologist, has discovered a large meteorite impact crater hiding beneath more than a half-mile of ice in northwest Greenland. The crater — the ...

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 ...