Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

An ancient impact structure in remote northern Australia was recently spotted by one of NASA's Earth-observing satellite ...

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

They flattened forests, left massive craters and even killed the dinosaurs. Learn all about Earth’s hugest asteroid strikes.

In 2021, a team led by Dr Gary Kinsland of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette found evidence that the impact and ...

The long, asymmetrical sides of the ripples slope south-southeast, pointing back to their source in the Chicxulub impact ...

Scientists have uncovered the world’s oldest known meteorite crater in Australia, revealing clues about Earth’s early history and the role of cosmic collisions. Scientists in Australia have identified ...

Listen to Story These cones were created when a meteorite struck the area The meteorite crashed at speeds exceeding 36,000 km/h This massive impact resulted in a crater over 100 km wide Researchers at ...

Geologists have identified the world’s oldest known impact crater in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater, estimated to be at least 100 kilometres wide, was formed around 3.47 billion ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

(Web Desk) - Scientists have found the oldest impact crater on Earth – and it changes our understanding of our planet and the origins of life. The meteorite that left the crater fell to Earth 3.5 ...