The furthest secondary craters found by the researchers indicated that some of the ejecta from the impact were launched as far as 1,150 miles (1,850 km). That's about four times the length of the ...

A monumental discovery has revealed that an asteroid struck the East Coast of North America roughly 35 million years ago, ...

"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...

When NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with a small asteroid moon in late 2022, the impact made history. It was the first ...

A new study finds that ejecta blankets—the layers of rock and other material blasted out of a crater by an impact—can vary in size depending upon what materials are present beneath the impact ...

Ultra-high-speed movie showing two views of an impact flash, and crater and ejecta development during the first few microseconds, for a stainless steel sphere impacting an aluminum alloy plate at ...

The crater in Western Australia was identified as the oldest in the world earlier this year, but new research suggests the ...

A new study finds that ejecta blankets -- the layers of rock and other material blasted out of a crater by an impact -- can vary in size depending upon what materials are present beneath the ...

On the left is an image of a fresh Martian impact crater taken by NASA's HiRISE instrument. On the right is the extent of an ejecta blanket according to computer simulations of impacts. view more ...