A massive, well-preserved impact crater has been uncovered in Guangdong, revealing the signature of a powerful meteorite strike during the Holocene. Measuring 900 meters across, it dwarfs other known ...

Scientists have discovered a massive asteroid impact crater in China. The bowl-shaped depression is some 900 meters wide—more than eight times the length of a football field. In a paper published last ...

On a radiant July afternoon, a pair of scientists hung their heads off the side of a boat and peered into the brilliant blue water of a lake known for its clarity. They were watching for the exact ...

Researchers have discovered something massive lurking underneath the far side of the moon: a mysterious blob with the mass akin to a pile of metal five times the size of the Big Island of Hawaii. The ...

A vast scar from a cosmic collision has been sitting in southern China, hiding in the landscape so effectively that people ...

A drying climate in East Africa reduced the amount of water in Kenya's Lake Turkana over thousands of years, which unleashed earthquakes and volcanoes from underneath it. This hazard of climate change ...

A BURST water main created a 25m crater, swallowing at least one parked car and a power pole as it caused a landslide in Bellevue Hill last night. The water pipe at the intersection of Victoria Rd and ...