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An Asteroid’s Bite in an Australian Mountain Range
Published March 20, 2025
The asteroid that smashed into northern Australia and caused the Amelia Creek impact structure transformed mountain ridges in the blast zone.
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The Many Facets of Söderfjärden
Published January 2, 2025
An impact crater in western Finland is a bucolic setting for agriculture and migratory birds—and its geometric shape resembles that of craters on other planets and moons.
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Deciphering India’s Luna Crater
Published April 22, 2024
New analysis of a round depression in the salty plains of the Kutch Basin revealed telltale signs of a prehistoric meteorite impact.
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Young Impact Crater Uncovered in Yilan
Published February 27, 2022
The 50,000-year-old crater is relatively young, and only the second discovered in China.
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Sudbury Impact Structure
Published September 20, 2021
Few craters are as large, or as old, as this impact structure in southeastern Ontario, Canada.
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Arizona’s Meteor Crater
Published May 31, 2021
The “young” and well-preserved crater helps scientists understand cratering processes on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system.
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Vredefort Crater
Published September 1, 2018
The world’s oldest and largest known impact structure shows some of the most extreme deformation conditions known on Earth.
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A One-Two Punch
Published November 23, 2013
Two asteroids crashed into Earth in the Carboniferous Period, leaving this distinctive pair of craters in northwestern Quebec.
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