The small town of Nordlingen is built on an asteroid crater, and its buildings are filled with diamonds created by the ...

These data allow us to image this fully in three dimensions and peel back the layers of sedimentary rock to look at the crater at all ... There is a very small chance that Bennu, a similarly ...

The collision was devastating: rocks from deep within Earth ... It was named after Chicxulub Pueblo, a small town close to this point. The crater was first discovered by scientists working ...

The craft's landing site was the bottom of Jezero Crater, where it has spent the ensuing years scouring the area's rocks and soil for evidence that life once existed on Mars. Late in August, ...

A team of astronomers believes the near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, a space rock between ... space to its source crater on the Moon and suggests the existence of more small asteroids composed ...