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