Joel Lapointe was scouring the Cote-Nord region of Quebec for potential camping spots when he saw something unusual. There appeared to be a 15km wide circle surrounding Marsal Lake. Intrigued by the ...

A newly identified impact scar in southern China has turned a quiet patch of countryside into one of the most important ...

Mysterious driftwood high in Grand Canyon caves hints at the legacy of Arizona’s huge impact crater.

WINSLOW, AZ (AZFamily) — An asteroid hit the Earth in what is now known as northern Arizona about 50,000 years ago. It left a giant crater that draws people from all over the world. Nestled between ...

In a small northwest Iowa town built atop a 74-million-year-old meteorite crater, even the drinking water carries remnants of ...

Geologists from the University of Minnesota have found a crater 11 times larger than the iconic Meteor Crater in Arizona. The crater is hidden about 350 feet below the city of Inver Grove Heights, a ...

Geology is full of detective stories about the Earth's history, and a new paper in Geology by University of New Mexico Distinguished Professors Emeritus Karl Karlstrom and Laurie Crossey, along with ...

Early in the morning of October 6, 2008, astronomers at the University of Arizona detected an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. When other sightings cropped up across the world, the ...

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 ...

I perched on the edge of disaster. Oddly enough, I wanted to laugh, perhaps in a strange effort to reduce the planet’s best ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Satellites have captured amazing views views of these craters on Earth. ESA explains. Nördlinger Ries, Ouarkziz Crater, Tenoumer ...