Scientists from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the CAS Aerospace Information Research Institute, and other institutions, have revised the decades-old ...

Scientists in Mexico documented a number of changes inside El Chichón during monitoring between June and December 2025.

The catastrophic impact of an asteroid 66 million years ago brought death and devastation on Earth—but also fascinating new ...

A new scientific study reveals that life recovered much faster than expected after the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out almost all life, primarily the dinosaurs, which were the dominant species at the time. Life then evolved again -- at a breathtaking ...

Because of Earth’s weathering climate and shifting tectonics, impact craters regularly disappear from the Earth’s geologic record. Scientists in China found an impact crater that formed during the ...

Researchers from Shanghai and Guangzhou, China have discovered an impact crater. It sits on the side of a hill in Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province. They’ve given it the name Jinlin crater. The team ...

GUANGZHOU, 24 October (BelTA - Xinhua) - 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 ...

But if one body is much bigger than the other, the larger body will probably survive the collision. Scientists may call the larger of the two the ‘target’ and the smaller, the ‘impactor’ or ‘ ...

Within the lush Ohio River Valley lies the famous Serpent Mound effigy. It is an earthen mound aligned with the solstices, which rests on the ridge of a meteorite impact crater. This ancient, ...

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 ...

Dinosaur bones are found on every continent. Everywhere on earth, dinosaur fossils disappear at the end of the Cretaceous Period, 65 million years ago. If you examine an outcrop of rocks dated around ...