"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University Belfast and a member of one of Nasa's sky surveys that searches and tracks ...

Study opens new doors for studying how meteorite impacts might have influenced Earth. In Western Australia, researchers have made a significant discovery: they have found the oldest meteorite ...

Shatter cones, which are features caused by the shockwave of a hypervelocity meteorite impact, are evidence that something hit this region when Earth was young. Impact craters this old have the ...

Scientists have discovered the world's oldest meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, dating back 3.5 billion years, which could provide clues to the early days of life on Earth. Upheaval ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

Craters can tell us a lot about the Earth’s history (Picture: Getty Images/500px Plus) When what is now known as the ‘Yarrabubba impact structure’ was formed by the meteor strike ...

Earth’s oldest meteorite impact crater was just found in WA’s Pilbara region – exactly where geologists hoped it would be. We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very ...

2024 YR4 was discovered on December 27 of last year by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) — a NASA-funded asteroid detection program with telescopes around the world ...

The Earth bears geologic evidence of past cosmic impacts, such as the 125-mile-wide Chixculub Crater in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, which was the likely impact site of the 6-mile-wide asteroid ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the ...

Researchers in Western Australia’s Pilbara region have discovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater, pushing back the previous record by more than one billion years. The newly ...