What really happened around the time when the asteroid smashed into Earth 66 million years ago? Scientists may finally have ...

The Jinlin impact crater in south China's Guangdong Province has been confirmed as the largest known crater on Earth since the Holocene period, which spans from 11,700 years ago to the present, the ...

China’s newly confirmed largest impact crater from the Holocene reveals rare geological evidence of a massive ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed ...

It looks like it could have been laid yesterday. But this incredible dinosaur egg, recently unearthed in Argentina, dates ...

Karl Karlstrom, a geologist recently retired from the University of New Mexico, grew up in Flagstaff, Arizona. Grand Canyon ...

The moon’s oldest and largest crater didn’t form in the way astronomers thought, according to a detailed analysis of its shape, which would rewrite the moon’s early history. The South Pole-Aitken (SPA ...

The South Pole-Aitken impact basin on the far side of the Moon formed in a southward impact (toward the bottom in the image). The basin has a radioactive “KREEP-rich” ejecta blanket on one side of the ...

The range of possible locations – represented by yellow points – of 2024 YR4 on Dec. 22, 2032. The range decreased from April to June as we gained more data and improved our certainty of the ...

Christine has had an infatuation with video games since she was a child, starting with games such as Diablo 2 and Morrowind. Her current obsessions include Final Fantasy 14, Genshin Impact, and Dragon ...

Researchers have found evidence of a previously unknown asteroid impact, but the crater is still at large. The clues of this bygone cataclysm consist of tektites—a type of natural glass that forms ...