The Bosumtwi impact crater in Ghana is different, however. It is well preserved (not deeply eroded or buried under sediments). Its well-defined, near-circular basin, filled by a lake, is surrounded by ...

If it is an impact site then the next step will be figuring out when the meteorite struck Earth. “That’s the wonderful thing about impact craters.

The Hailin impact crater is a newly-discovered scar in the mountains of Northeast China left behind by a meteor impact, but geologists aren't sure exactly when this happened.

Planetary scientists search for ancient impacts to learn about Earth’s early formation. So far, nobody has found an impact crater older than the 2.23-billion-year-old Yarrabubba structure, also in ...

Two of Arizona's most famous landmarks may be linked by cosmic violence: the asteroid that gouged out Meteor Crater may have also caused the formation of an ancient lake in the Grand Canyon.

For one camper, a quick browse on Google Maps led to the discovery of what appears to be a meteor crater. Researchers are ...

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 ...

Lake Iro was recently photographed from space as it looked like a sunglint, but there is more to the lake that makes it ...

A Canadian man, doing research on an upcoming camping trip via Google Maps, uncovered what experts believe to be a gigantic crater left by an ancient space rock.

New images of an asteroid impact crater buried deep below the floor of the Atlantic Ocean have been published by researchers at Heriot-Watt University.

For a brief few weeks in early 2025, astronomers were worried about the asteroid 2024 YR4. Discovered in late 2024 by an ...