This week, geologists announced they discovered the world's oldest known impact crater. It's in Western Australia's ancient ...

The city of Wetumpka is getting a financial boost to support the development of the Wetumpka impact Crater, one of the ...

The European Space Agency has released new images of a rare "butterfly" crater on the Red Planet. The bug-like structure ...

Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater. Located in Western Australia, the crater has been dated to about 3.5 billion years ago, at a time when these almost ...

Planet Earth holds some of the strangest, natural tourist destinations in the solar system. Earth is perpetually bombarded with debris from outer space. Luckily for us, most of it burns up during ...

The news about the discovery of the world’s largest asteroid impact crater is huge, if true—323-miles-in-diameter huge. Dubbed the Deniliquin structure, UNSW adjunct professor and asteroid impact ...

I think all craters are cool, I’m just going to start with that. I am very biased. Impact craters occur on every planetary body in our Solar System, no matter the size. By studying impact craters and ...

Try as we might, we’ll probably never be capable of making a complete count of the craters on Mars. Estimates are there are some 43,000 of them larger than 3 miles (5 km) in diameter and a virtually ...

Danish and Swedish researchers have dated the enormous Hiawatha impact crater, a 31 km-wide meteorite crater buried under a kilometer of Greenlandic ice. The dating ends speculation that the meteorite ...

The Chicxulub Impact Crater, located on the Yucatán Peninsula, represents one of Earth’s most significant impact structures and offers a unique window into catastrophic processes that reshaped the ...

A portion of the Tabernas Basin of southeastern Spain where researchers think a 400-meter-wide impactor struck some eight million years ago. Spain’s Almeria province has long been known as a shooting ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Sep 27, 2022, 08:31am EDT Sep 27, 2022, 09:15am EDT This article ...