The post Microbes Learned To Thrive In An Ancient Meteor Impact Crater And Mineral Formations Were The End Result first on TwistedSifter. Just under million years ago, an asteroid hit western Finland, ...

Scientists studying the Chicxulub crater have made strides in understanding the formation of central rings in large impact ...

Two of Arizona's most famous landmarks may be linked by cosmic violence: the asteroid that gouged out Meteor Crater may have also caused the formation of an ancient lake in the Grand Canyon. This ...

While Earth was famously hit by a meteor that killed off the dinosaurs, many others have also hit our planet, many of them leaving huge scars in their wake.

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 stages of evolution.

A meteor may have led to the formation of the Grand Canyon, a new study has found. While many Americans are familiar with the Grand Canyon’s beauty and uniqueness, they may not be aware of the story ...

When high-velocity asteroids land on Earth, they can form a meteor impact crater. Such collisions have occurred throughout Earth's history and still occur on other planetary bodies today. While most ...

Impact craters are formed when an object from space such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet strikes the Earth at a very high velocity. This leaves an excavated circular hole on the Earth’s surface. It ...

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 ...

Geological evidence, including an Ordovician-era increase in earthquakes, tsunamis, meteorites, and crater formation, suggests a significant celestial event approximately 466 million years ago. A ...

A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in the U.S., Canada and Italy has found that studying the craters on asteroid Bennu allowed them to calculate how long it has been orbiting ...