Why it's incredible: The crater has a unique oval shape and asymmetric sides. The Hailin impact crater is a giant gouge in a Chinese hillside that was left by a asteroid which smashed into Earth ...

The Hailin impact crater is a newly-discovered scar in the mountains of Northeast China left behind by a meteor impact, but ...

The meteorite craters on Earth are circular depressions formed by the impact of celestial bodies such as asteroids from space. Meteorites are not only a fascinating presence in nature but also one ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. QUICK FACTS Name: Hailin impact crater Location: Heilongjiang Province, Northeast China ...

This 2013 astronaut photo shows a giant eye-shaped impact crater in the Sahara Desert that is slowly being circled by ...

From these exceptional images, a clearer picture of what happened 66 million years ago, when the crater formed, has emerged.

An impact crater is an approximately circular depression in the surface of a planet, moon or other solid body in the Solar System, formed by the hypervelocity impact of a smaller body with the ...

If this is really an impact structure, it would be Venus' oldest and largest, giving us a rare glimpse into Venus' past and ...

Rocks were flying everywhere, willy-nilly, smacking into the newly formed planets, pocking them with craters and gouging out impact basins. Though the hellish world has beautifully preserved ...

Early in the life of the Solar System, things were a lot more violent than they are today. Rocks were flying everywhere, willy-nilly, smacking into the newly formed planets, pocking them with craters ...

BEIJING, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have discovered a meteorite crater on a mountain ridge for the first time, according to an article recently published in the academic journal "Matter ...