Earth’s story may have hardened into place almost as soon as the Solar System began. That is the striking claim in new ...

Researchers from Shanghai and Guangzhou, China have discovered an impact crater. It sits on the side of a hill in Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province. They've given it the name Jinlin crater. The team ...

A newly discovered, remarkably well-preserved impact crater is shedding fresh light on how extraterrestrial bodies collide with Earth. In the journal Matter and Radiation at Extremes, researchers from ...

Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Nov 20, 2025, 08:01am EST Nov 21, 2025, 11:53am EST Aerial view ...

The Apophis asteroid, once feared to hit Earth, is less than three years from making an unprecedented approach toward Earth. Here's what to know.

New research suggests that the very oldest pieces of rock on Earth—zircon crystals—are likely to have formed in the craters left by violent asteroid impacts that peppered our nascent planet, rather ...

March 5 (UPI) --NASA on Thursday walked back a prediction that an asteroid had a "small, but notable" chance of impacting Earth or the moon in 2032 based on newly analyzed data. Scientists said that ...

METEOROLOGIST DALENCIA JENKINS JOINS US NOW TO EXPLAIN. TELL US WHAT DOES MATTER. YEAH, IT’S REALLY THE TILT. AND THAT CREATES KIND OF THE DISTANCE BETWEEN. SO WE’LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN A SECOND. BUT ...