Geologists have discovered the world's oldest known impact crater; it sits in the heart of Western Australia's ancient Pilbara region. An analysis of rock layers in the region suggests a crater at ...

On05, NASA launched its Deep Impact mission to crash into comet Tempel 1, also known as 9P/Tempel. Two spacecraft were ...

Scientists have found the oldest impact crater on Earth – and it changes our understanding of our planet and the origins of ...

Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater. Located in Western Australia, the crater has been dated to about 3.5 billion years ago, at a time when these almost ...

There’s a saying going something on the lines that try as one might, no one and no thing can ever achieve perfection. That’s probably even more so when talking about impact craters, the remnants of ...

I think all craters are cool, I’m just going to start with that. I am very biased. Impact craters occur on every planetary body in our Solar System, no matter the size. By studying impact craters and ...

Danish and Swedish researchers have dated the enormous Hiawatha impact crater, a 31 km-wide meteorite crater buried under a kilometer of Greenlandic ice. The dating ends speculation that the meteorite ...

The discovery of a vast, fresh impact scar on Mars began with what looked like a smudge in a routine weather snapshot. A camera built to monitor daily clouds and dust storms ended up flagging the ...

This unusual crater on Mars resembles a butterfly, but its shape tells a story of a shallow impact, melted ice, and ancient ...

A portion of the Tabernas Basin of southeastern Spain where researchers think a 400-meter-wide impactor struck some eight million years ago. Spain’s Almeria province has long been known as a shooting ...

Danish and Swedish researchers have dated the enormous Hiawatha impact crater, a 31 km-wide meteorite crater buried under a kilometer of Greenlandic ice. The dating ends speculation that the meteorite ...