First look at the island may offer the picture of a dead caldera but a closer look reveals that the caldera actually holds a ...

“We found tiny yellow glass spherules within glacial debris in Antarctica and our analysis of potassium and sodium suggests that these were thrown the farthest from the impact crater,” Dr ...

The ancient crater’s discovery in the Pilbara suggests meteorite impacts may have kickstarted Earth's first continents, and ...

Have you ever wondered what Antarctica might look like without ice? Now, a new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed ...

“Much like the extreme conditions found on planets in our solar system, Antarctica has a [harsh ... set their sights on visiting a distant crater, but decided to turn back after estimating ...

The Savonoski Crater is a round hole in Alaska's Katmai National Park that has defied scientific explanation ever since it was discovered. Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice ...

But it has taken the most modern satellites to resolve the crater floor, and to verify the presence of the lake. Scientists from University College London and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS ...

This meant the impact had to be the same age as the Antarctic Member rocks, which we know are 3.5 billion years old. We had our age, and the record for the oldest impact crater on Earth.

Delicate shatter cones within rocks typical of the Antarctic Creek Member. We had our age, and the record for the oldest impact crater on Earth. Perhaps our ideas regarding the ultimate origin of ...

This meant the impact had to be the same age as the Antarctic Member rocks, which we know are 3.5 billion years old. We had our age, and the record for the oldest impact crater on Earth.

Delicate shatter cones within rocks typical of the Antarctic Creek Member. Tim Johnson We had our age, and the record for the oldest impact crater on Earth. Perhaps our ideas regarding the ...