"I've never seen anything like it before," the hiker noted of the historic meteorite impact site in the viral TikTok clip.

Scientists have discovered living microbes producing methane in the fractured rocks deep inside Sweden's Siljan impact crater ...

Scientists have discovered living, methane-producing microbes deep inside a massive meteorite impact crater in Sweden, and ...

A fractured meteorite crater in central Sweden has turned out to be a thriving home for methane-producing microbes. This ...

WINSLOW, AZ (AZFamily) — An asteroid hit the Earth in what is now known as northern Arizona about 50,000 years ago. It left a giant crater that draws people from all over the world. Nestled between ...

Geology is full of detective stories about the Earth's history, and a new paper in Geology by University of New Mexico Distinguished Professors Emeritus Karl Karlstrom and Laurie Crossey, along with ...

Paul Heinrich, retired associate researcher with the Louisiana Geological Survey at LSU, discovered citronelle formations in the fractures in the clayey, or clay-like, sands exposed in the ditch ...

The impact crater could be linked to the origins of life on Earth. The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way ...

In September 2025, an X post (archived) viewed over 1 million times claimed the world's biggest meteorite impact crater was in Mexico and included a video of the purported site. The video and claim ...

Research Grand Canyon landslide-dam and paleolake triggered by the Meteor Crater impact at 56 ka by a team from the University of New Mexico describes a lake in the Grand Canyon created by a landslide ...

A quiet hillside in southern China holds the mark of something that arrived with enormous force from far beyond our planet. The Jinlin crater, tucked into the low mountains of Guangdong Province, ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet's stages of evolution.