Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.

The crater in Western Australia was identified as the oldest in the world earlier this year, but new research suggests the ...

Chinese scientists believe samples found by Chang’e-6 mission answer central question in lunar science, but some in the West ...

The discovery of an ancient meteorite impact crater was recently reported in Western Australia. But not everyone is convinced it is Earth’s oldest ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact ...

Researchers have dated the enormous Hiawatha impact crater, a 31-kilometer-wide meteorite crater buried under a kilometer of Greenlandic ice. The dating ends speculation that the meteorite ...

The second-oldest impact crater, estimated to have been created about 2.2 billion years ago, is also located in Western Australia, southwest of Pilbara, in Yarrabubba.

Without the Greenland structure as a hypothetical candidate for oldest impact crater on Earth, the record now goes to the Yarrabubba structure in Western Australia. The Yarrabubba structure is ...

The oldest impact crater on Earth is also the largest. Vredefort crater in South Africa, also called the Vredefort Dome, was originally 185 miles (300 kilometers) across, scientists estimate.