At 900 meters, the giant crater in southern China is three times larger than the previous Holocene recorder holder.

When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, ...

A massive, well-preserved impact crater has been uncovered in Guangdong, revealing the signature of a powerful meteorite ...

A team of researchers has uncovered a remarkably intact impact structure that is now known as the Jinlin crater.

Nestled on a hillside in Guangdong Province near Zhaoqing City, the Jinlin crater managed to hide in plain sight until ...

A quiet hillside in southern China holds the mark of something that arrived with enormous force from far beyond our planet.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit Earth, but it has forced planetary defense experts to confront a different kind of worst case: ...

"It sounds like science fiction or the stuff of Hollywood movies." ...

The asteroid 66 million years ago that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs hit at a 60-degree angle — ensuring maximum death and destruction.

In a first for the Perseverance rover, it appears to have found an iron-nickel meteorite near the Jezero Crater.