NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered a bizarrely textured rock covered in hundreds of egg-like spheres on Mars, ...

Geologists have discovered the world's oldest known impact crater; it sits in the heart of Western Australia's ancient Pilbara region. An analysis of rock layers in the region suggests a crater at ...

MORE: Chance of asteroid striking Earth in the next decade rises to 3.1%, NASA says A distinctive rock formation helped the research team locate the Pilbara crater. "Exceptionally preserved ...

Lake Salda, in southwestern Turkey, bears a close resemblance to Mars' Jezero crater, which is currently being sampled by ...

"A Paleoarchean impact crater in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia" is published in Nature Communications. The team from Curtin's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences investigated rock ...

crater dates back to a very tumultuous time in Earth’s history. Formations called "shatter cones," which only form under intense pressure from meteorite impacts, are visible in sections of rock ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover spotted a strange rock made up of hundreds of tiny spheres that look like clusters […] ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth ... it also contains spherules – droplets formed from molten rock thrown up during an impact. But these drops could have ...

Researchers discovered the crater thanks to 'shatter cones', distinctive rock formations only formed under the intense pressure of a meteorite strike. The shatter cones at the site, about 40 ...

By far, the Pilbara crater is the oldest known on Earth, the researchers say, and they managed to find it thanks to a distinctive rock formation. The team’s findings are published today in ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth ... it also contains spherules—droplets formed from molten rock thrown up during an impact. But these drops could have traveled ...