Meteor impact craters are not just fascinating geological features; they are windows into Earth’s history. These ancient ...

The crater was discovered in the dry outback ... at least 200 million years older than the next most ancient impact structure - the Vredefort Dome in South Africa. "We were interested in the ...

Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was caused by the release of large volumes of sulfur from rocks within the Chicxulub impact ...

The Yarrabubba Crater in Australia has been identified as the oldest asteroid impact site in the world dating back 2.229 billion years. The age of the crater is nearly half that of Earth.

The impact description - scientists call it the dynamic collapse model of crater formation - is only possible if the hammered rocks can, for a short period, lose their strength and flow in a ...