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The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet's stages of evolution.

Curtin University researchers have discovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly redefine our understanding of the origins of life and how our planet was ...

Scientists initially proposed two possibilities. Either the meteorite entered in an extremely unusual way, or it was moved by ...

A French visitor to the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, unearthed a 7.46-carat diamond on Jan. 11. Julien Navas, who lives in Paris, said he had gone out gold digging and ...

The Perseverance rover has been exploring the Jezero Crater for years, and it's finally found a potential meteorite, now ...

The Oregon Zoo, in partnership with the National Park Service and the High Desert Museum, has rescued 19 Mazama newts from Crater Lake National Park in an attempt to save the species from extinction.

Geologists have now unearthed evidence of a 3.5 billion-year-old crater found in a layer of Australian rock. Shatter cones, which are features caused by the shockwave of a hypervelocity meteorite ...