The impact crater is the second discovered in China. A crescent-shaped crater in Northeast China holds the record as the largest impact crater on Earth that formed in the last 100,000 years.

[Xinhua] BEIJING - Based on research on lunar samples retrieved by Chang'e-6 mission, a team of Chinese scientists confirmed that the oldest and largest impact crater on the moon, the South Pole ...

Impact craters range from small, simple, bowl-shaped depressions to large, complex, multi-ringed impact basins. Meteor Crater is perhaps the best-known example of a small impact crater on the Earth.

It is buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico and has been identified as one of the largest impact craters on the planet. Within the crater, samples of rock were taken, and their ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered what they say is the largest asteroid impact area ever found on Earth. WSJ's Monika Auger reports. Photo: A. Clikson Intel Made a Mistake Decades Ago.

“If the Falklands basin is really an impact crater, and it has some of the most telling features, then it is one of the largest known,” observes Michael Rampino, a professor in New York ...

Scientists in Australia say they’ve found the world’s oldest impact crater, surpassing the previous record-holder’s age by more than 1.25 billion years. The meteorite impact—in Western ...

Evans recently discovered a 12-mile-wide crater, the Weaubleau-Osceola structure in Missouri, that, if confirmed, would be one of the biggest impact craters in the United States. It's not on The ...

These celestial bodies have abundant and often large pock marks. For example, one of the largest impact craters in our solar system is on the moon's south pole — and could only have been created ...

The crater, located near the Pilbara town of Marble Bar, is thought to have been created 3.47 billion years ago.

Scientists have found the oldest impact crater on Earth – and it changes our understanding of our planet and the origins of life. The meteorite that left the crater fell to Earth 3.5 billion ...