China has quietly confirmed that a vast circular scar in its northeast is not a volcanic basin or a quirk of erosion, but a colossal asteroid impact site that ranks as the largest known crater of its ...

After an asteroid struck Finland long ago, microscopic life colonized the impact site within a few million years, new research reveals. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

When high-velocity asteroids land on Earth, they can form a meteor impact crater. Such collisions have occurred throughout Earth's history and still occur on other planetary bodies today. While most ...

A meteorite that broke off 2023 CXI and was found in northwestern France Volunteers search for meterorites in February 2023 in Angiens, France With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked ...

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid travelled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere and sent fiery fragments shooting to the ground, gathering new information ...