Composite Photograph by Miguel Claro Meteor Crater, an impact crater in Arizona, is approximately 50,000 years old and is approximately 4,000 feet wide and 550 feet deep. A few meteors may fall on ...

Despite the nearly full moon illuminating the skies, the Geminid meteor shower could still put on a great show tonight.

Despite having the wrong ideas about how the Moon’s craters formed, these 19th-century astronomers created highly accurate ...

Researchers discovered the crater this year, noting its unique oval shape and uneven sides. It's unclear exactly when the meteor struck, but Chen and his colleagues say the event probably occurred ...

UK scientists used hundreds of tiny fossils that lived in the sea at the time to understand climate shifts tens of millions ...

Chinese scientists found for the first time a meteorite crater on a mountain ridge, the discovery of which enriches human's understanding of the planetary collision history and provides a new ...

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Then a giant meteor, perhaps a wanderer from the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, streaks into range. If it happens to hit the earth, it blasts a crater many miles across ...

The research analysis found several deposits across Earth from the same period as the impact craters containing high levels of L chondrite, a common meteorite material, that had signs of shorter ...