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

Geologists have now unearthed evidence of a 3.5 billion-year-old crater found in a layer of Australian rock. Shatter cones, which are features caused by the shockwave of a hypervelocity meteorite ...

Meteor Crater was created more than 50,000 years ago by a massive meteor strike near Winslow, Arizona. Visitors can experience the 550-foot-deep and nearly mile-wide cavity from an air-conditioned ...

The impact crater is the second ... of layered lake and swamp sediments lay a nearly 1,000-foot-thick (320 m) slab of brecciated granite, which is granite made up of many rocky fragments cemented ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The discovery of the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia, dates back 3.5 billion years, significantly older ...

Until now, a crater called Yarrabubba held the title of the oldest meteor strike site. But the Pilbara site - dubbed the "North Pole Crater" - has steamed to the top spot, beating the competition ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater thanks to pristine structures created by the blast in the rock. Hidden away in the country's outback ...

Savonoski Crater is a 1,600-foot-wide hole in Alaska that looks like a meteorite impact site—but no space rock has ever been found. Despite its striking shape, there are no traces of meteoritic ...

(AUSTRALIA) — The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet’s ...