Earth’s oldest asteroid impact crater may just have been found - Researchers date North Pole Dome in Australia’s Pilbara region to over 3 billion years ago ...
If an asteroid was ever threatening Earth, the best way to stop it might be with a nuclear explosion, according to a new ...
Our planet has suffered countless impacts over its history. Take the 150km-wide (93-mile) Chicxulub crater buried beneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The colossal impact which caused that is ...
While scientists are revising the timeline at Australia's North Pole Dome, it's still our oldest known crater.
Last year, geologists dated the crater in Western Australia at 3.47 billion years old, which was disputed by other experts.
The probe will conduct a detailed scientific survey of the asteroid and send a sample back to Earth for further analysis.
Researchers have dated the North Pole Dome impact structure, confirming it as Earth's oldest known impact crater.
Ages ago, before humans lived in North America, a space rock pierced the atmosphere and screamed in a blaze of light toward the surface of the Earth.
"This is the first comprehensive evidence suggesting that stromatolites could form in hydrothermal lakes created by asteroid impacts." ...