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

Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses a potential risk to the Moon, with a 1.7% chance of collision despite Earth now being safe. If it ...

Impact craters this old have the potential ... the asteroid belt towards the planets of the inner Solar System. Lunar craters that are relics of the Late Heavy Bombardment are mostly obvious ...

Curtin University researchers have discovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly redefine our understanding of the origins of life and how our planet was ...

Scientists have found the oldest impact crater on Earth – and it changes ... common in the early solar system from looking at the Moon,” Tim Johnson, from Curtin University.

“We know large impacts were common in the early solar system from looking at the moon,” Tim Johnson ... how life may have got started, as impact craters created environments friendly to ...

The moon itself, with more than a million craters exceeding one kilometer (.62 miles) in diameter, is evidence of "intense bombardment," according to the paper. Impact craters also create friendly ...