Researchers Baffled To Find World's Oldest Impact Crater, Redefines How Our Planet Was Shaped Land features reflect the ...

The asteroid initially had an approximate 3% chance for impact with Earth, but that recently dropped to less than 0.0017% in new calculations by NASA making it negligible. “It’s really easy to ...

The Earth formed around 4.5 billion years ago and was mostly water, but meteorite and asteroid impacts were uncommon before 2.5 billion years ago. Credits: envato elements; Evidence of shatter cones, ...

"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 ...

In January this year, the ESA calculated the rock's trajectory and initially predicted that there was a 1.2% chance of impact with ... dust and rocks from asteroid Bennu and returned them to ...

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 ...

Athabasca University space scientist explains the cyclical nature of asteroid risk in light of 2024 YR4 asteroid The Earth will likely avoid impact by the 2024 YR4 asteroid ... “Earth actually has ...

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 ...