Mercury Has Shrunk Even More than Planetary Scientists Thought
The Solar System’s smallest planet has contracted by nearly 19 km (12 miles) across, as crater debris masked…
Pit found by Quebecer confirmed to be a 390-million-years-old meteorite impact crater – Toronto Star
Pit found by Quebecer confirmed to be a 390-million-years-old meteorite impact crater Toronto StarHe saw a pit on Google…
Earth’s Oldest Known Impact Crater May Have Been Found in the Australian Outback. It Hit Earth 3 Billion Years Ago
Credit: Curtin University. Three billion years ago, before there were any animals, forests, and even before oxygen filled…
Scientists Just Found Evidence That Asteroids May Have Helped Create Life on Earth
Researchers in South Korea found ancient stromatolites inside an asteroid impact crater, pointing to a surprising link between…
Newly Discovered Crater Reveals Recent Impact
The Moon is constantly being bombarded by traveling space rocks, its surface recording each collision in the form…
There’s Something Really Strange About the Moon’s Largest Crater, Where NASA Astronauts Are Due to Land
Scientists have found that we may have been wrong about how the Moon’s largest crater, the South Pole-Aitken…
Southward Impact Excavated Magma Ocean at Moon’s Biggest Crater: Study
Roughly 4.3 billion years ago, when our Solar System was still in its infancy, a giant asteroid slammed…