The biggest and oldest of these scars is a monster crater, one of the largest ... for this is the presence of a dense chunk of asteroid buried therein. Having direct access to a treasure trove ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

The asteroid belt that sits between Mars ... But the most fascinating discovery has been made around one of its largest craters, the Ertunet Crater. Maria Cristina De Sanctis, a planetary ...

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

Tunguska is currently the largest recorded asteroid strike event in human history ... it will punch right through the ...

A new study suggests the craters were dug out by rocky debris after the lunar surface was struck around 3.8 billion years ago ...

Two canyons that splay out from a vast asteroid crater on the moon may have been quickly formed by chains of impacts that ...

A note overlaid on the video says "Did you know the world's best preserved meteor crater is located in Arizona?" The footage was captured at the Meteor Crater Natural Landmark, according to the ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered what they say is the largest asteroid impact area ever found on Earth. WSJ's Monika Auger reports. Photo: A. Clikson ...

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The generally accepted theory is that either an asteroid or comet entered ... "Tunguska is the largest cosmic impact witnessed by modern humans." Surprisingly, the first investigation of the ...