China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft is scheduled to launch this week and will study two solar system bodies up close.

After leaving Earth, Tianwen-2 will reach Kamo‘oalewa by July 2026. This tiny, elongated asteroid likely spans no more than ...

If the ring is confirmed to be created by a meteorite impact ... Currently, the biggest impact crater found on Earth is the ...

A number of ancient animal carvings were miraculously discovered inside South Africa’s Vredefort ... Scientists believed that the crater is a result of a giant asteroid impact from some two ...

Scientists have hypotheses about some of nature's biggest mysteries but are still working on proof. Some beautiful phenomena ...

A number of ancient animal carvings were miraculously discovered inside South Africa’s Vredefort Crater, which is the largest confirmed impact crater on earth at 55 miles wide. Scientists believed ...

With 22 national parks and monuments and 35 state parks, there are some seriously impressive places to go glamping in Arizona ...

Located 35 miles east of Flagstaff and 6 miles south of Interstate 40, Meteor Crater and its fragments were first recognized after the discovery of iron fragments west of the crater near Canyon ...

China has sent a probe on an ambitious mission to grab rocks from a near-Earth asteroid and return them to Earth before ...

Composite Photograph by Miguel Claro Meteor Crater, an impact crater in Arizona, is approximately 50,000 years old and is approximately 4,000 feet wide and 550 feet deep. A few meteors may fall on ...

The record sheds light on the climate early humans experienced when they were spreading out of Africa. A tree-ringed African ...

Using computer simulations, the researchers uncovered a scenario in which an ancient asteroid impact briefly amplified that field, just long enough for nearby rocks to capture and record its magnetic ...