The asteroid belt that sits between Mars ... But the most fascinating discovery has been made around one of its largest craters, the Ertunet Crater. Maria Cristina De Sanctis, a planetary ...

The second biggest is the Chicxulub crater on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, which is 180 km (112 miles) wide, and created by a ...

This exceeds the size of the near-300km-wide Vredefort impact structure in South Africa, which to date has been considered the world's largest ... an asteroid strikes, it creates a crater with ...

If this is really an impact structure, it would be Venus' oldest and largest, giving us a rare glimpse into Venus' past and ...

The world's largest asteroid impact, 300 miles across, could be hidden in the Australian ground. Scientists have been tracing "magnetic" and "gravity" patterns spreading out in circles from a ...

On a large asteroid named Vesta, mysteriously curved gullies and fan-shaped deposits may have formed from short-lived flows ...

Among other things, the study proved that the crater was, in fact ... these types of impacts are exceedingly rare. The largest meteor impact in living memory is the "super bolide" asteroid ...

The generally accepted theory is that either an asteroid or comet entered ... "Tunguska is the largest cosmic impact witnessed by modern humans." Surprisingly, the first investigation of the ...

"This would directly link a specific asteroid in space to its source crater on the Moon and suggests ... "It is clear that the largest, youngest craters are more probable sources, as they produce ...

In the 1960s, scientists discovered more microscopic diamonds in the remains of the vast Canyon Diablo meteorite, which formed Meteor Crater in ... its dark color. The largest diamond ever found ...

The Meteor Crater Education Alliance (MCEA) will be hosting its first fundraising event, Crater Challenge 2024, on Saturday, Nov. 2. Participants can choose one of two options for a 2 1/2-mile ...