Geologists have discovered the Hailin Crater in China, noting its unique oval shape and uneven sides. It is a giant hollow on a hillside left by an asteroid that crashed into the Earth several million ...

Impact craters form when huge asteroids or comets, sometimes kilometers in size, hit the surface of a planetary body. Images of various planets and moons in the solar system show thousands and ...

The wheeled Mars explorer reached the rim of the Jezero Crater and paused to take in the view. The rover's first photos from "Lookout ... it was formed by a massive impact about 3.9 billion ...

Some impacts caused great change to occur, like the Chicxulub Impactor ... didn’t change the planet’s climate in the 150,000 years after impact. This led the team to believe that not all large ...

66 million years ago, a massive asteroid struck Earth, leading to the extinction of the dinosaurs and many other species. The impact, which created the Chicxulub Crater in present-day Mexico, was a ...

One is about 100 microns in size (Natalie Cheng / Bridget Wade) She noted that research into the Yucatan asteroid strike, also known as the Chicxulub impact crater, suggests a shift during less ...

Related: Earth vulnerable to major asteroid strike, White House science chief says The larger of the two asteroids, which was still smaller than the Chicxulub impactor that wiped most dinosaurs ...

This created a huge crater called Chicxulub. The aftermath was something out of an apocalypse-themed action movie. The crash triggered massive tsunamis, and raging fires, while a dust cloud blocked ...