Double impact crater in Canada formed in two separate impacts

66-yard crater appears in far northern Siberia

Dino-killing crater shows clues about Ice Age sea level

Globally unique double crater identified in Sweden

Ancient crater points to massive meteorite strike

Comet craters — literal melting pots for life on Earth

Impact craters and their broader structures can be visible in a geologic map, like a bullseye. But what geophysical traces remain at the structure’s outermost edges? Credit: Huber et al. (2023), JGR Planets

Earth’s most ancient impact craters are disappearing

Crater discovery’s impact echoes still today

An orthophoto of Wolfe Creek Crater. An orthophoto is an aerial photograph that has been geometrically corrected so that the scale is uniform and the photo has the same lack of distortion as a map. Credit: University of Wollongong

New study reveals secrets of Wolfe Creek Crater

Maps of the Siljan impact structure and study locations. a Map of Sweden with the Siljan area indicated. b Geological map of the Siljan impact structure with locations of the cored boreholes and the quarry sampled for mineral coatings indicated, along with the sedimentary units in the crater depression, towns, lakes (white) and roads (black lines). Gas compositions exist from boreholes VM2 and VM5 (located adjacent to VM2). Credit: Nature Communications, 2019

Europe’s largest meteorite crater home to deep ancient life

Map of the bedrock topography beneath the ice sheet and the ice-free land surrounding the Hiawatha impact crater.

Huge Crater Discovered in Greenland

Vredefort Dome, Free State, South Africa. Credit: NASA

Vredefort crater : The Largest Verified Impact Crater on Earth

10 Biggest Impact Craters on Earth

Few, if any, big impact craters remain to be discovered on...

Impact illustration. Credit: Victor Leshyk

It was microbial mayhem in the Chicxulub crater, research suggests

Large conical shatter cones within the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia, provide visible proof of a meteorite impact 3.5 billion years ago. Credit: Chris Kirkland, Curtin University

World’s oldest impact crater found, rewriting Earth’s ancient history

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