Loosely-bound clumpy asteroids with curveball-like spins may have scooped out some of Earth's most distinctly shaped craters, including Arizona's bowl-like Barringer Crater, a study published Nov. 22 ...

A discovery by a South Korean research team suggests that impact-generated lakes may have fostered early oxygen-producing ...

Various crater shapes can be found throughout the Solar System, and these differences can form from a variety of factors that affect impact. Although velocity is one major ingredient, a new study ...

A new study, published in Science Advances, has refined some important details about the moon's largest and oldest impact ...

An ancient impact may have scattered material from deep inside the moon toward NASA's planned Artemis landing sites near the ...

A team of planetary scientists has developed a promising new way to peer beneath the dusty surface of Mars and other planetary bodies. A new study finds that ejecta blankets -- the layers of rock and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. The Silverpit Crater is situated in the Silverpit Basin in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aerial view of Barringer crater (meteor impact) in Arizona. Loosely-bound clumpy asteroids with curveball-like spins may have ...

Asteroids with different spins and bonding strengths may be responsible for the vast variety of impact craters on Earth, including Arizona's Barringer Crater, new simulations show. When you purchase ...