"It sounds like science fiction or the stuff of Hollywood movies." ...

A dark, carbon-rich layer of soil stretches across parts of North America like a bruise in the geologic record, a “black scar” that some researchers argue marks the moment an ancient apocalypse ...

Evidence from key archaeological sites suggests a major cosmic explosion may have reshaped the climate and ecosystems of the ...

Scientists have discovered living microbes producing methane in the fractured rocks deep inside Sweden's Siljan impact crater ...

A quiet hillside in southern China holds the mark of something that arrived with enormous force from far beyond our planet.

Researchers have discovered an impact crater 900m in diameter in southern China. It hit less than 10,000 years ago, when ...

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

A newly discovered, remarkably well-preserved impact crater is shedding fresh light on how extraterrestrial bodies collide with Earth. In the journal Matter and Radiation at Extremes, researchers from ...

A mong the hilly forests of southern China, scientists have discovered the largest modern meteorite impact crater on Earth. Dubbed the Jinlin crater, the giant pitted scar could become an invaluable ...

A massive, well-preserved impact crater has been uncovered in Guangdong, revealing the signature of a powerful meteorite strike during the Holocene. Measuring 900 meters across, it dwarfs other known ...