When most people think of an impact crater, they think of a roughly circular depression, like Meteor Crater. But craters can have different shapes and features – Vredefort has a complex shape ...

When most people think of an impact crater, they think of a roughly circular depression, like Meteor Crater. But craters can have different shapes and features – Vredefort has a complex shape and is ...

A remarkable image captured by ESA’s Mars Express orbiter has brought renewed attention to a complex and heavily eroded ...

Peak Ring: A circular, uplifted structure within a complex impact crater, formed during the modification stage through processes such as collapse and transient fluidisation. Hydrothermal ...

Ground-penetrating radar from China’s Martian rover Zhurong reveals shallow impact craters and other geologic structures in the top five meters of the red planet’s surface. The images of the ...

The researchers posit that the volcano could have supported conditions favorable for life in the once-watery Jezero crater.

Impact craters found around the Earth that were made ... including studies of Ordovician meteorites at different latitudes and more complex models of how a disintegrating asteroid might form ...

The impact crater could be linked to the origins of life on Earth. The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way ...

What the researchers found revolves around the complex geology of this ... produced by each individual crater is not hugely significant in terms of its impact on global warming, Schurmeier said ...

When most people think of an impact crater, they think of a roughly circular depression, like Meteor Crater. But craters can have different shapes and features – Vredefort has a complex shape ...