China has quietly confirmed that a vast circular scar in its northeast is not a volcanic basin or a quirk of erosion, but a ...

Researchers from Shanghai and Guangzhou, China have discovered an impact crater. It sits on the side of a hill in Zhaoqing, ...

The Jinlin crater, measuring 900 meters across, formed during Earth’s current geological epoch. A recently identified and exceptionally well-preserved impact crater is offering scientists new insight ...

A team of researchers has uncovered a remarkably intact impact structure that is now known as the Jinlin crater.

Researchers confirmed the impact origin of the Jinlin crater: a 900-meter-wide remarkably young impact crater preserved on a ...

On November 17, 2025, scientists announced the discovery of the world’s largest “modern” impact crater in southern China. The ...

Scientists discover China’s Jinlin crater, the largest modern Holocene impact site, revealing recent meteor strikes may be ...

Scientists have discovered living, methane-producing microbes deep inside a massive meteorite impact crater in Sweden, and ...

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 ...