Satellites have captured amazing views views of these craters on Earth. ESA explains. Nördlinger Ries, Ouarkziz Crater, ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact struck with such force that it carved out a vast crater, later buried ...

Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest – but an independent analysis shows they might be off by 800 million years.

Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread. Unraveling Earth's 4.5-billion-year history with rocks is tricky business.

Roughly 37 miles east of Flagstaff, Meteor Crater—formally known as Barringer Crater—was formed approximately 50,000 years ago by a 150-foot-wide iron meteorite. As one of the best-preserved ...

Auroras (also called the northern and southern lights) are visible from the ground after powerful solar storms, but these ...

The study of impact crater geology and shock metamorphism offers a vital window into the extreme conditions that have shaped planetary surfaces. Impact events, whether from solitary projectiles or ...

Chicxulub Impact Crater Geology Publication Trend The graph below shows the total number of publications each year in Chicxulub Impact Crater Geology.

President Trump's massive tax cut legislation passed by the House and Senate this week will dramatically upend health care in America, largely through its targeting of Medicaid and ObamaCare.

Legendary GOP operative Karl Rove predicted that President Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill would have a "huge impact" on the 2026 midterms.

The U.S. military operation targeting Iran’s Fordow facility was 15 years in the making, said Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.