Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest – but an independent analysis shows they might be off by ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

Tomkins and his team analyzed 21 craters that emerged during the impact spike, and found that they were all within 30 degrees ...

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Around 466 million years ago, a lot of meteorites started hitting Earth. We know this because many impact craters formed in a geologically brief period.

Geologists Found the World’s Oldest Crater—and It Might Have Jumpstarted All Life on Earth Biology may have begun with a bang. By Elizabeth Rayne Published: Mar 11, 2025 8:00 AM EDT ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, ...

Curiously enough, the crater was exactly where we had hoped it would be, and its discovery supports a theory about the birth of Earth's first continents.. The very first rocks. The oldest rocks on ...

Earth is no longer at risk of a direct collision with the asteroid 2024 YR4, but an impact on the moon in 2032 could send ...

The next big space threat isn't to Earth. It's to the Moon.

Well, we measured how much of Earth’s land surface suitable for preserving a crater was near the equator at that time. Only about 30% of the suitable land was close to the equator, with 70% at ...

Geologists Found the World’s Oldest Crater—and It Might Have Jumpstarted All Life on Earth Biology may have begun with a bang. By Elizabeth Rayne Published: Mar 12, 2025 8:00 AM EDT ...