This crater, located beneath the Yucatán Peninsula, is linked to the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs. It is one of the best-preserved large impact craters on Earth.

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth ...

Scientists in Australia say they’ve found the world’s oldest impact crater, surpassing the previous record-holder’s age by more than 1.25 billion years. The meteorite impact—in Western ...

A video circulating on social media shows a blast in an empty plot, creating a large crater resembling an underground explosion.

The discovery of a 3.47-billion-year-old crater in WA's Pilbara region pushes back the age of the earliest-known impact site on Earth by more than one billion years.

Spanning 25 miles in diameter, this crater is three times the size of the Grand Canyon, making it the largest known impact site in the U.S. and the 15th largest on Earth.

The discovery bolsters the theory that meteorite impacts played an important role in Earth's early geological history ...

NASA has created a plan for the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope, or LRCT. The idea is that NASA would select a large crater on the far side of the moon, roughly 3 km – 5 km in diameter. This ...

An unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 flights ...