Discover the list of the top 9 largest impact craters on Earth, including the Vredefort Dome, Chicxulub crater, and other ...

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 billion years ago ...

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy.

In the deserts of southern Australia, scientists have been captivated by tiny, shimmering glass fragments scattered across ...

78 million years ago, a 1.6 km asteroid slammed into what is now Finland, creating a crater 23 km (14 mi) wide and 750 m deep ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Geologists have now unearthed evidence of a 3.5 billion-year-old crater found in a layer of Australian ...

Sometime in the Middle Eocene epoch, nearly 50 million years ago, a large object hurtled through Earth's atmosphere, crashing ...

Research indicates that pyrite began to form 5 million years after the impact, suggesting that the hydrothermal system had ...

Satellite view of the Bosumtwi Impact Crater showing areas of Artisanal and Small scale Gold Mining activities. Credit: David Baratoux Satellite view of the Bosumtwi Impact Crater showing areas of ...

A comet explosion may explain mass extinctions 13,000 years ago, linking the Clovis people's vanishing and mammoth die-off to ...

Minerals like platinum-group metals, including platinum, palladium, and rhodium, could be scattered across the nearly 6,500 ...

Geologists have now unearthed evidence of a 3.5 billion-year-old crater found in a layer of Australian rock. Shatter cones, which are features caused by the shockwave of a hypervelocity meteorite ...