impact craters
New Research Reveals Provides Insight into Mysterious Features on Airless Worlds
Between 2011 and 2018, NASA's Dawn mission conducted extended observations of Ceres and Vesta, the largest bodies in the Main…
Could Comets have Delivered the Building Blocks of Life to “Ocean Worlds” like Europa, Enceladus, and Titan too?
Throughout Earth's history, the planet's surface has been regularly impacted by comets, meteors, and the occasional large asteroid. While these…
Impact Craters: Why study them and can they help us find life elsewhere?
When we look at the Moon, either through a pair of binoculars, a telescope, or past footage from the Apollo…
Questions Remain on Chinese Rocket That Created an Unusual Double Crater on the Moon
In November, we reported how an impact on the Moon from a Chinese Long March rocket booster created an unusual…
We Now Know Exactly Which Crater the Martian Meteorites Came From
Mars is still quite mysterious, despite all we've learned about the planet in recent years. We still have a lot…
The Moon was Pummeled Even Harder by Asteroids Than it Looks
The Moon's pitted surface tells a tale of repeated impacts over a long period of time. While Earth's active geology…
It Turns Out That the World’s Oldest Impact Crater Isn’t an Impact Crater
In early 2012, an international research team surveying parts of southwestern Greenland announced that they had discovered the oldest impact…
Did a Comet Wipe out the Dinosaurs?
About 66 million years ago a massive chunk of rock slammed into Earth in what is the modern-day Yucatan Peninsula.…
There’s a Vast Microbial Ecosystem Underneath the Crater that Wiped Out the Dinosaurs
How did life arise on Earth? How did it survive the Hadean eon, a time when repeated massive impacts excavated…
Another Enormous Crater Found Under the Ice in Greenland
A glaciologist has discovered another enormous impact crater under more than a mile of ice in Greenland. This is on…