At 900 meters, the giant crater in southern China is three times larger than the previous Holocene recorder holder.

It is a scientific consensus that water once flowed on Mars, and that it had a denser atmosphere, meaning that it was once ...

A vast scar from a cosmic collision has been sitting in southern China, hiding in the landscape so effectively that people ...

A team of researchers has uncovered a remarkably intact impact structure that is now known as the Jinlin crater.

Nestled on a hillside in Guangdong Province near Zhaoqing City, the Jinlin crater managed to hide in plain sight until ...

The Jinlin crater, measuring 900 meters across, formed during Earth’s current geological epoch. A recently identified and exceptionally well-preserved impact crater is offering scientists new insight ...

Asteroids with different spins and bonding strengths may be responsible for the vast variety of impact craters on Earth, including Arizona's Barringer Crater, new simulations show. When you purchase ...

Computer simulations have revealed that a vast region of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, may have behaved like a fluid during the formation of the Chicxulub impact crater. Gareth Collins, a ...

A massive, well-preserved impact crater has been uncovered in Guangdong, revealing the signature of a powerful meteorite ...

Like it or not, nature is not a sharpshooter, and when it comes to rocks falling out of the sky on any given planet, it’s anybody’s guess as to where they’re going to hit. But it’s borderline ...

Scientists have announced they have found a "freckle" on the Moon. Researchers at the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera ...