Schematic diagram of the initial conditions set up for simulations with collision types differing in ion trajectories....Science China Press ...

This conclusion gained further traction with the discovery of the Chicxulub crater in the Yucatán Peninsula, approximately 180 kilometers in diameter, indicating an impact of colossal ... Image by ...

Satellites have captured amazing views views of these craters on Earth. ESA explains. Nördlinger Ries, Ouarkziz Crater, ...

Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence ...

Why it's incredible: Evidence suggests it could be the greatest known impact crater on Earth. The Wilkes Land crater is a hole in the bedrock beneath East Antarctica's ice sheet measuring 315 ...

Impact simulations for Titan used special hydrodynamic code that simulates crater impact processes on planetary surfaces. They ran simulations with vertical impact velocities at 10.5 km/s ...

New research in Sweden has uncovered perplexingly high methane emissions coming from the largest meteorite crater in Europe. The Siljan Ring is a prehistoric impact structure in central Sweden ...

New research in Sweden has uncovered perplexingly high methane emissions coming from the largest meteorite crater in Europe. The Siljan Ring is a prehistoric impact structure in central Sweden that ...

The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after analyzing deeply drilled rock core from the impact site ...