A crescent-shaped crater in Northeast China holds the record as the largest impact crater on Earth that formed in the last 100,000 years. Prior to 2020, the only other impact crater ever ...

World's Largest Asteroid Crater Found in Australia Scientists in Australia have discovered what they say is the largest asteroid impact area ever found on Earth. WSJ's Monika Auger reports.

“If the Falklands basin is really an impact crater, and it has some of the most telling features, then it is one of the largest known,” observes Michael Rampino, a professor in New York ...

Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

Namibia holds the keys to cosmic history with its meteorite craters - remnants of the universe's fiery ballet that shaped our ...

The gigantic cataclysm, which released energy 130 times more powerful than the detonation of the entire world’s atomic ...

Things to do on the Galápagos Islands include spending time with local wildlife and hiking to the rim of one of the world's ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In the summer of 2014 a giant crater was spotted in an area sometimes referred to as the "end of the world." Now, 2 years later, scientists finally think they know ...

Flanking the eastern edge of the Serengeti, the site houses the Ngorongoro Crater – the world's sixth-largest intact volcanic caldera – and Olduvai Gorge. This UNESCO World Heritage site ...

The crater had not been under observation or subject to disaster-preparedness plans. One person, a Self-Defense Member struck by volcanic rock, was killed. 11 were injured, some seriously.