SYFY WIRE Explore The LatestMoviesTVGamesComicsInterviewsBad Astronomy All Posts Tagged impact craters Asteroid glass on the Moon provides a window into dino-killing impacts They are admittedly very tiny windows. By Cassidy Ward | 2 months ago NASA mission spots Chinese rocket impact craters on the Moon Looks like China hit a double: Side-by-side craters on the Moon from a rocket booster. By Phil Plait | 5 months ago The best shielding against small meteorite impacts? Cover yourself in rubble Bennu has a natural force field to protect it: Crumbly rocks. By Phil Plait | 5 months ago 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 | 9 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 | 9 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 | 10 months ago The biggest crater known was from an asteroid that made the dinosaur killer look like a pebble By Phil Plait | 2 years ago Earth's asteroid impact rate took a sudden jump 290 million years ago By Phil Plait | 2 years 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 Load More
Asteroid glass on the Moon provides a window into dino-killing impacts They are admittedly very tiny windows. By Cassidy Ward | 2 months ago
NASA mission spots Chinese rocket impact craters on the Moon Looks like China hit a double: Side-by-side craters on the Moon from a rocket booster. By Phil Plait | 5 months ago
The best shielding against small meteorite impacts? Cover yourself in rubble Bennu has a natural force field to protect it: Crumbly rocks. By Phil Plait | 5 months ago
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 | 9 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 | 9 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 | 10 months ago
The biggest crater known was from an asteroid that made the dinosaur killer look like a pebble By Phil Plait | 2 years 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
