Satellites have captured amazing views views of these craters on Earth. ESA explains. Nördlinger Ries, Ouarkziz Crater, ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the ...

“Before our discovery, the oldest impact crater was 2.2 billion years old, so this is by far the oldest known crater ever found on Earth,” Curtin University’s Tim Johnson, a geologist and co ...

Scientists have found the oldest impact crater on Earth – and it changes our understanding of our planet and the origins of ...

Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater in Western Australia. It has been dated to about 3.5 billion years ago, at a time when these almost literally Earth ...

Gale Crater is the name of a huge impact crater on Mars with a diameter of approximately 96 miles (154 kilometers). Scientist estimate it to be between 3.5 and 3.8 billion years old.

Meanwhile, the Hellas impact basin is the largest clearly visible impact crater in the solar system and is over nine kilometers deep. The atmospheric pressure at the base is twice that at the rim.

Hellas Planitia, the crater on Mars named after Greece. credit: NASA / JPL / USGS, Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons Hellas Planitia, often referred to simply as Hellas, is a crater on the planet Mars ...

The Hellas impact basin—the dark blue circular region in this false-color image from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA)—is one of the largest known impact craters in the solar system, with a ...

The Hellas impact basin—the dark blue circular region in this false-color image from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA)—is one of the largest known impact craters in the solar system ...

1. Meteor Crater, AZ, US The one that started it all. Barringer Crater (often called Meteor Crater), is located near the city of Winslow on Route 66 in Arizona, US, and was the first crater confirmed ...

Barringer Crater (often called Meteor Crater), is located near the city of Winslow on Route 66 in Arizona, US, and was the first crater confirmed to have been caused by an extraterrestrial impact.