Planetary scientists search for ancient impacts to learn about Earth’s early formation. So far, nobody has found an impact ...

Isotopic dating to clarify the crucial part played by this, the oldest crater on Earth and unique in a geological sense, in ...

Beneath East Antarctica’s thick ice lies the Wilkes Land anomaly — a possible meteorite impact crater over 500 km wide. This ...

The caldera may have blasted out its cryomagma in a single explosive event, or it may have spread its eruptions over time.

The largest meteorite ever found on Earth is the Goba meteorite, which weighs an astonishing 66 tons and measures about 3 meters in diameter. Discovered near the town of Grootfontein in Namibia in ...

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.

The original study, by a different group, made headlines with the claim that the crater formed 3.5 billion years ago. If true, it would be Earth’s oldest by far.

The original study, by a different group, made headlines with the claim the crater formed 3.5 billion years ago. If true, it would be Earth’s oldest by far.