The Hailin impact crater is a newly-discovered scar in the mountains of Northeast China left behind by a meteor impact, but ...

The meteorite craters on Earth are circular depressions formed by the impact of celestial bodies such as asteroids from space. Meteorites are not only a fascinating presence in nature but also one ...

This 2013 astronaut photo shows a giant eye-shaped impact crater in the Sahara Desert that is slowly being circled by ...

An impact crater is an approximately circular depression in the surface of a planet, moon or other solid body in the Solar System, formed by the hypervelocity impact of a smaller body with the ...

What looks to be a large impact crater has been identified beneath the Greenland ice sheet. The 31km-wide depression came to light when scientists examined radar images of the island's bedrock.

Early in the life of the Solar System, things were a lot more violent than they are today. Rocks were flying everywhere, willy-nilly, smacking into the newly formed planets, pocking them with craters ...

Rocks were flying everywhere, willy-nilly, smacking into the newly formed planets, pocking them with craters and gouging out impact basins. Though the hellish world has beautifully preserved ...

BEIJING, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have discovered a meteorite crater on a mountain ridge for the first time, according to an article recently published in the academic journal "Matter ...

The impact description - scientists call it the dynamic collapse model of crater formation - is only possible if the hammered rocks can, for a short period, lose their strength and flow in a ...