The study of impact crater geology and shock metamorphism offers a vital window into the extreme conditions that have shaped planetary surfaces. Impact events, whether from solitary projectiles or ...

The Jinlin impact crater in south China's Guangdong Province has been confirmed as the largest known crater on Earth since the Holocene period, which spans from 11,700 years ago to the present, the ...

Tektites, the natural glasses formed by the melting of terrestrial surface materials during high‐velocity meteorite impacts, offer a unique window into the dynamic processes that shape our planet.

A rocky stretch in Western Australia's Pilbara, near Earth's earliest-confirmed lifeforms, was hit by a meteorite about 3.5 billion years ago. Reading time 2 minutes Scientists in Australia say ...

The article details five notable impact craters on Earth: Meteor Crater (Arizona, USA), Chicxulub (Yucatán, Mexico), Vredefort (South Africa), Tnorala (Gosses Bluff, Australia), and Nördlinger Ries ...

This unusual crater on Mars resembles a butterfly, but its shape tells a story of a shallow impact, melted ice, and ancient ...

The Meteor Crater near Winslow, Arizona, is seen from a plane Januray 30, 2017. The Meteor Crater, sometimes known as the Barringer Crater and formerly as the Canyon Diablo crater, is a famous impact ...

Martian winds can have quite an impact. ESA's Mars Express has spotted them whipping up sand grains and acting as a cosmic ...

Scientists initially proposed two possibilities. Either the meteorite entered in an extremely unusual way, or it was moved by ...

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

GUANGZHOU, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- The Jinlin impact crater in south China's Guangdong Province has been confirmed as the largest known crater on Earth since the Holocene period, which spans from 11,700 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Sep 27, 2022, 08:31am EDT Sep 27, 2022, 09:15am EDT This article ...