"This is the first comprehensive evidence suggesting that stromatolites could form in hydrothermal lakes created by asteroid impacts." ...

A hidden crater in South Korea may hold clues to one of the biggest turning points in Earth’s history: the rise of oxygen. Scientists discovered fossil-like stromatolites — layered structures built by ...

Asteroid impacts may have helped make Earth habitable. (Discovery Access/Getty Images) Somehow, on this beautiful blue marble ...

A discovery by a South Korean research team suggests that impact-generated lakes may have fostered early oxygen-producing ...

A crater created by an asteroid impact in South Korea has revealed traces of ancient microbial life preserved beneath its ...

South Korean researchers discovered more than 20 oxygen-producing stromatolites inside the Hapcheon impact crater, the first direct evidence that post-impact hydrothermal lakes incubated microbial lif ...

A study challenges the lunar origin of the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa and points to a different and surprising origin.

When we think of asteroids, we almost immediately think of giant rocks bouncing around like the iconic chase scene in "The Empire Strikes Back," and we often hear how they are remnants from the birth ...

Scientists at the University of Arizona have discovered that asteroid 2016 HO3 was likely blasted into the solar system from the moon several million years ago. Using simulations, they have figured ...

Mercury may have gotten much of its polar ice within a single Mercurian day following a massive asteroid impact, a new study ...

An exclusive, challenging hike is now available to guests visiting Meteor Crater. Here's how to visit the bottom like the astronauts of yesteryear.