The meteorite craters on Earth are circular depressions formed by the impact of celestial bodies such as asteroids from space. Meteorites are not only a fascinating presence in nature but also one of ...

This isn’t just any geological formation – it’s the largest impact crater on Earth created within the last 100,000 years. 1 ...

Impact features on Venus may have been staring us in the face all along That's the message from a team of planetary scientists, who have explained Venus' apparent dearth of large craters by ...

Early in the life of the Solar System, things were a lot more violent than they are today. Rocks were flying everywhere, willy-nilly, smacking into the newly formed planets, pocking them with craters ...

According to the Center for High Pressure Science & Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR), the newly discovered Hailin impact crater, also the fourth confirmed impact crater discovered by Chinese ...

Abstract: Employing continuous medium three-dimensional reconstruction technology, this study explores the morphological evolution of crater surfaces during impact processes in the field of particle ...

a large asteroid impact could relatively easily punch through the crust and into the mantle below, allowing lava to flood upward and pool in the resulting crater, forming, in this case ...

Rocks were flying everywhere, willy-nilly, smacking into the newly formed planets, pocking them with craters and gouging out impact basins. Though the hellish world has beautifully preserved ...

The meteorite craters on Earth are circular depressions formed by the impact of celestial bodies such as asteroids from space. Meteorites are not only a fascinating presence in nature but also one ...

A synthetic aperture radar image of Haastte-baad Tessera, cut by a set of unique concentric rings that record a newly recognized type of impact crater on Venus, previously only identified on the icy ...

I am predisposed to like videos about meteorite craters but this was even more interesting than I anticipated. A nice example of a crater 2-3 km wide is Rotor Kamm in southern Africa. I should mention ...