The City of Wetumpka embraces one of the most unique pieces of its history this week.

Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread. Unravelling Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history with rocks is tricky business. Case ...

The massive crater is the focus of a week-long discovery event, offering unique tours, stargazing and lectures.

A strange phenomenon awaits on the far side of the Moon as Artemis astronauts prepare to explore the South Pole–Aitken basin. This ancient impact crater, over 4 billion years old, holds secrets from ...

Early in the morning of October 6, 2008, astronomers at the University of Arizona detected an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. When other sightings cropped up across the world, the ...

A 2021 satellite photo shows off the recently uncovered Yilan crater in China, which is most likely the youngest impact ...

A decades-long scientific debate over the origins of the Silverpit Crater in the southern North Sea has been resolved. New evidence confirms that it was caused by an asteroid or comet impact about ...

The chemical makeup of mineral inclusions preserved in impact glass hints at the site of a missing impact crater. Tektites are natural glass formed when debris falls back to Earth after a meteorite ...

More than 50,000 years ago, a meteor hit Earth and formed what we now call Meteor Crater in northern Arizona. But new ...