The world's oldest known impact crater has been identified in the Pilbara, which is a part of Western Australia, according to new research reported in Nature Communications. The crater was made about ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact struck with such force that it carved out a vast crater, later buried ...

A newly identified impact scar in southern China has turned a quiet patch of countryside into one of the most important ...

A massive, well-preserved impact crater has been uncovered in Guangdong, revealing the signature of a powerful meteorite strike during the Holocene. Measuring 900 meters across, it dwarfs other known ...

Cores extracted from the impact crater revealed evidence of an ancient, life-nurturing hydrothermal system in the wake of the catastrophe. Reading time 3 minutes Around 66 million years ago, an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Nov 20, 2025, 08:01am EST Nov 21, 2025, 11:53am EST Aerial view ...

The chemical makeup of mineral inclusions preserved in impact glass hints at the site of a missing impact crater. Tektites are natural glass formed when debris falls back to Earth after a meteorite ...

When an asteroid slammed into what is now Lake Lappajärvi in Finland some 78 million years ago, it unleashed unimaginable heat and destruction. But from that chaos, a new world quietly emerged. Within ...

Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest — but an independent analysis shows they might be off by at least 800 million years. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...