A decades-long mystery beneath the North Sea has finally been solved. Scientists have confirmed that the Silverpit Crater, ...

A new discovery about the Ames astrobleme, or meteor crater, has scientists revising estimates by millions of years.

A buried crater beneath the North Sea was created by an asteroid about 43 to 46 million years ago, according to a study led ...

Analysis of tiny zircon crystals buried within the 10-mile-wide Ames crater in northwest Oklahoma suggests that the submerged structure dates back to 370 million years ago.

Planning a camping trip on Google Maps turned into a deep-time discovery for an amateur astronomer in Quebec. While scouting locations in 2024, Joël Lapointe noticed what looked like an odd depression ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The oldest known asteroid impact site on Earth was created 3.02 billion years ago in what's now Western Australia — not far from ...

A 3-billion-year-old impact structure in Western Australia rewrites what scientists know about Earth’s earliest and most violent chapter. Deep in the ancient rock country of Western Australia, ...

Hickman Crater, an 850-foot ring spotted on Google Earth in 2007, holds buried breccia with up to 2,381 ppm nickel from an iron meteorite.

From the streets of Nördlingen in southern Germany, it looks like an ordinary medieval town. There are narrow lanes, historic ...

WINSLOW, AZ — Visitors can descend into Meteor Crater on guided hikes that offer a rare view of the Arizona landmark. The crater, located off Interstate 40 between Flagstaff and Winslow, is about 550 ...

A newly formed crater on the moon is teaching us about our nearest neighbour’s complex geology. The crater, formed by an asteroid impact in 2024, is the largest that we’ve ever watched form in real ...

NASA scientists have discovered the largest newly-formed crater ever found in the solar system. It was created when an asteroid fragment the size of a six-storey building slammed into the moon two ...