Meteor craters are incredible reminders of the powerful forces of nature and the history of our planet. These massive impact ...

Impact craters can ... relationships between the crater wall outcrops,” said Stack. “But it also provides an opportunity to simply enjoy an awesome view. When I look at this mosaic through ...

But there wasn’t just one asteroid impact ... between the crater wall outcrops,” said Stack. “But it also provides an opportunity to simply enjoy an awesome view. When I look at this ...

showing the track of a boulder that rolled down the crater wall, according to NASA. Image: NASA/KARI/ASU The image above was captured just after a new Moon, when our view of the satellite from ...

The new crater is not visible in this view, but its location is indicated by the white arrow. LROC WAC mosaic, 110 kilometers in width. NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University Although the impact ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet's stages of evolution.

The impact crater is more than 5 miles (8 kilometers) deep. Scientists hope that returning samples to Earth will help answer enduring questions about the intriguing far side, which hasn’t been ...

The discovery of what seems to be a second impact crater on the other side of the Atlantic, of a very similar age, is raising these questions. It's not as big as the one we know at Chicxulub in ...

Belva is a 0.6-mile-wide (0.9-kilometer wide) impact ... between the crater wall outcrops,” said Stack. “But it also provides an opportunity to simply enjoy an awesome view.

Belva Crater is a large impact crater within the far larger Jezero ... when it was parked at the west side of Belva Crater's rim on a light-toned rocky outcrop named "Echo Creek." ...