Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in ...

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

Hera spacecraft captured an extraordinary near-infrared image of Mars’ moon Deimos during a flyby of the Red Planet. This ...

ESA's Hera spacecraft inaugurated use of its science instruments to image the smaller of the planet's two moons, Deimos.

A European spacecraft on a journey to study NASA's asteroid crash site did a quick pop-in of Mars on its way, capturing ...

Earth’s oldest meteorite impact crater was just found in WA’s Pilbara region – exactly where geologists hoped it would be. We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very ...

There’s no gaping crater. Billions of years of geology at work through erosion and sedimentation has made this ancient impact invisible — but there are subtle signs it happened. The primary ...

Scientists have uncovered the world’s oldest known meteorite crater in Australia, revealing clues about Earth’s early history and the role of cosmic collisions. Scientists in Australia have identified ...

Listen to Story These cones were created when a meteorite struck the area The meteorite crashed at speeds exceeding 36,000 km/h This massive impact resulted in a crater over 100 km wide Researchers at ...

Geologists have identified the world’s oldest known impact crater in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater, estimated to be at least 100 kilometres wide, was formed around 3.47 billion ...