One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the ...

Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...

Dust and other debris would rise into the atmosphere on Bennu striking Earth, blocking out the Sun and cooling the planet to ...

About 35 million years ago, an asteroid struck the ocean off the East Coast of North America, leaving behind a massive impact ...

The world’s largest atomic bomb was exploded by the Russians north of the Arctic Circle in 1961. It was equivalent to 2,500 Hiroshima A-bombs. The fireball was 5 miles in diameter and could ...

Key events include the Tunguska Event, the Chelyabinsk Event, the Barringer Crater, the Chesapeake Bay Crater, and the Chicxulub Event ... the idea of an asteroid impact seems like the stuff ...

Nature Research Intelligence Topics enable transformational understanding and discovery in research by categorising any document into meaningful, accessible topics. Read this blog to understand ...

Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object ...

The discovery of two Grand Canyons on the moon and analysis of the lunar south pole area will prepare astronauts for Artemis ...

A colossal impact billions of years ago carved out the canyons that rival the most breathtaking features here on Earth in a ...

The gigantic cataclysm, which released energy 130 times more powerful than the detonation of the entire world’s atomic ...