Our study concludes the impact actually happened much later, sometime after 2.7 billion years ago. This is at least 800 million years younger than the earlier estimate (and we think it's probably ...

Meteor Crater and Lowell Observatory will host a one-day public event centered around asteroids and their impact on Earth. Asteroid Day Flagstaff – Big Impact Event will take place on Thursday ...

Meteor Crater and Lowell Observatory will host a one-day public event centered around asteroids and their impact on Earth. Asteroid Day Flagstaff – Big Impact Event will take place on ...

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 ...

Barringer Crater isn’t the only curveball impact site in the world—or even in the U.S. Live Science notes that the Flynn Creek crater in Gainesboro, Tennessee, which formed 100 million years ...

(CN) — The crater is a staggering 20 miles wide and buried under more than half a mile of Greenlandic ice, placing it among the largest meteorite impact sites known to exist on Earth. Many experts ...

Though Brushy Creek Crater in St. Helena Parish is an impact crater, it isn't preserved like the Meteor Crater Natural Landmark near Flagstaff, Arizona, because of erosion and Louisiana's ...

Earth Science Gigantic Greenland Impact Crater Is Much Older Than Scientists Thought The 19-mile-wide, ice-covered hole is bigger than roughly 90% of all known impact craters on Earth.

Since 2012, some scholars have embraced the hypothesis published by scientists in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters that Earth's oldest impact crater — the geological feature that ...

So far, nobody has found an impact crater older than the 2.23-billion-year-old Yarrabubba structure, also in Australia. (Some of the authors from both 2025 Pilbara studies were co-authors on the ...