Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

Scientists with a new theory about how Earth’s early continents formed predicted where a superold impact crater should ...

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

The oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth (3.5 billion years old) has been discovered in Western Australia's Pilbara region ...

Previously, the Vredefort Dome had been the only dated impact structure. The 2 billion-year-old crater can be found in South ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

Remarkably, when we returned to the vehicle, we all thought we'd found the same thing: shatter cones. Shatter cones are ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater in Western ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way ...

The team identified the crater through distinctive rock formations known as "shatter cones," which form under extreme ...