"This is the first comprehensive evidence suggesting that stromatolites could form in hydrothermal lakes created by asteroid ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Satellites have captured amazing views views of these craters on Earth. ESA explains. Nördlinger Ries, Ouarkziz Crater, Tenoumer ...

A hidden crater in South Korea may hold clues to one of the biggest turning points in Earth’s history: the rise of oxygen. Scientists discovered fossil-like stromatolites — layered structures built by ...

Scientists now suspect Earth may have had a rocky ring system around 466 million years ago, after researchers found 21 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Long before the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs crashed to Earth, our planet was being bombarded by ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Jul 14, 2025, 03:43pm EDT Jul 15, 2025, 04:22am EDT A satellite ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Geologists have now unearthed evidence of a 3.5 billion-year-old crater found in a layer of Australian ...

Asteroid impacts may have helped make Earth habitable. (Discovery Access/Getty Images) Somehow, on this beautiful blue marble ...

The world's oldest known impact crater has been identified in the Pilbara, which is a part of Western Australia, according to new research reported in Nature Communications. The crater was made about ...

Less than a decade after discovering a near-Earth asteroid with lunar origins, an international group of scientists says they have determined where this mysterious object came from on the moon's ...

Mercury may have gotten much of its polar ice within a single Mercurian day following a massive asteroid impact, a new study ...