Laboratory simulations of the SMART-1 impact performed at the University of Kent, United Kingdom, suggest that the impact may have caused a clearly elongated lunar crater, and produced a high-speed ...

Scientists have discovered a possible second impact crater buried under more than a mile of ice in northwest Greenland. This follows the finding, announced in November 2018, of a 19-mile-wide crater ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Nov 20, 2025, 08:01am EST Nov 21, 2025, 11:53am EST Aerial view ...

The discovery of a vast, fresh impact scar on Mars began with what looked like a smudge in a routine weather snapshot. A camera built to monitor daily clouds and dust storms ended up flagging the ...

New images of an asteroid impact crater buried deep below the floor of the Atlantic Ocean have been published by researchers at Heriot-Watt University. The images confirm the 9km Nadir Crater, located ...

The impact crater could be linked to the origins of life on Earth. The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way ...

Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest — but an independent analysis shows they might be off by at least 800 million years. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has made a remarkable discovery: the largest fresh impact crater ever confirmed on Mars, detected through a routine weather-monitoring camera. Thenew 50-meter-wide ...