Previously, the Vredefort Dome had been the only dated impact structure. The 2 billion-year-old crater can be found in South ...

Since a potentially hazardous asteroid was detected in December, tens of others objects have come close to Earth.

February, asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted and originally believed to have a 3.1 per cent of hitting Earth in 2032. Further calculations revealed this was not the case.

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

As a planetary geologist, my research focuses on meteorite impact craters, the scars of large asteroid and cometary ... Earth is the 1.2 km in diameter Meteor Crater in Arizona, which formed ...

THE world's oldest-known crater from an asteroid smash 3.5 billion years ago ... "The only way you can form those in natural rocks is from a large meteorite impact." Research by the Geological ...

Some 50,000 years ago, a meteor struck near what is now Flagstaff, Arizona, leaving a 560-foot-deep crater. More recently, an ...

The impact crater could ... with a 2nd massive asteroid passing this week The meteorite strike may have even contributed to the formation of cratons, which are large, stable landmasses that ...

Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth known as ... years ago in what is now northern Arizona. It left a crater that was three quarters of a mile wide and 600 feet deep.