Cores extracted from the impact crater revealed evidence of an ancient, life-nurturing hydrothermal system in the wake of the ...

Map of the bedrock topography beneath the ice sheet and the ice-free land surrounding the Hiawatha impact crater. The structure is 31 km wide, with a prominent rim surrounding the structure.

Billions of years ago, a giant asteroid struck the moon with so much energy that it melted rock until it was super-heated and white-hot, or what scientists call impact melt. This eventually cooled and ...

Impact craters range from small, simple, bowl-shaped depressions to large, complex, multi-ringed impact basins. Meteor Crater is perhaps the best-known example of a small impact crater on the Earth.

Two valleys extending away from a giant crater suggest that upcoming Artemis missions are more likely to sample ancient lunar ...

But these drops could have travelled across the globe from a giant impact anywhere on Earth, most likely from a crater that ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way ...

Impact craters this old have the potential to tell us not only how Earth evolved but how the earliest impacts created the conditions for life to emerge. Long before the asteroid that ended the ...

But these drops could have travelled across the globe from a giant impact anywhere on Earth, most likely from a crater that has now been destroyed. After consulting the GSWA maps and aerial ...