Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have just discovered a giant crater 900m in diameter in southern China. Named the Jinlin crater, a new study confirms ...

China has quietly confirmed that a vast circular scar in its northeast is not a volcanic basin or a quirk of erosion, but a colossal asteroid impact site that ranks as the largest known crater of its ...

The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs didn’t keep life down for long. New research shows that microscopic plankton began evolving into new species within just a few thousand years—and ...

Findings support kinetic impact technique for planetary defense.