SYFY WIRE Explore The LatestMoviesTVGamesComicsInterviewsBad Astronomy All Posts Tagged impact craters UPDATE: So, about that 'young' asteroid impact crater in Greenland... it's actually old. Really old. Huge crater under the ice is 60 million years old. By Phil Plait | 3 months ago 280 million years ago a huge asteroid slammed into the Wyoming/Nebraska border Immense explosion rained debris down for hundreds of kilometers. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago Mars has been getting beat up by asteroids for 600 million years Even if things had lived there, they probably wouldn't have wanted to hang around. By Elizabeth Rayne | 4 months ago The biggest crater known was from an asteroid that made the dinosaur killer look like a pebble By Phil Plait | 1 year ago Earth's asteroid impact rate took a sudden jump 290 million years ago By Phil Plait | 1 year ago Are rivers of liquid methane washing away craters on Saturn’s moon Titan? By Phil Plait | 2 years ago Watch out, Avengers: This asteroid has a more violent track record than Thanos By Elizabeth Rayne | 2 years ago Incoming! Scientists pinpoint impact crater of ancient Asian meteor strike By Jeff Spry | 2 years ago TESS saw the comet 47/P Wirtanen undergo an outburst after a debris impact By Phil Plait | 2 years ago Ryugu’s history has been… weird By Phil Plait | 2 years ago Load More
UPDATE: So, about that 'young' asteroid impact crater in Greenland... it's actually old. Really old. Huge crater under the ice is 60 million years old. By Phil Plait | 3 months ago
280 million years ago a huge asteroid slammed into the Wyoming/Nebraska border Immense explosion rained debris down for hundreds of kilometers. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago
Mars has been getting beat up by asteroids for 600 million years Even if things had lived there, they probably wouldn't have wanted to hang around. By Elizabeth Rayne | 4 months ago
The biggest crater known was from an asteroid that made the dinosaur killer look like a pebble By Phil Plait | 1 year ago
Are rivers of liquid methane washing away craters on Saturn’s moon Titan? By Phil Plait | 2 years ago
Watch out, Avengers: This asteroid has a more violent track record than Thanos By Elizabeth Rayne | 2 years ago
Incoming! Scientists pinpoint impact crater of ancient Asian meteor strike By Jeff Spry | 2 years ago
TESS saw the comet 47/P Wirtanen undergo an outburst after a debris impact By Phil Plait | 2 years ago