Thirty-two students from Western and around the world will be journeying almost two billion years back in time in a unique, intensive one-week field course to study the planet’s second-largest impact ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Two of the three largest impact craters on Earth have nearly the same size and structure, researchers say, but one was caused by a comet while the other was caused by an asteroid.

Researchers have long puzzled over what created the giant, elliptical hole called the Sudbury Basin in Ontario, Canada. At 62 kilometers long, 30 kilometers wide, and 15 kilometers deep, it’s the ...

Geochemists from Trinity College Dublin's School of Natural Sciences may have found a solution to a long-debated problem as to where - and how - life first formed on Earth. In a paper just published ...

The origins of a massive 1.8 billion-year-old crater in Canada has been revealed Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The Sudbury Basin, ...

DUBLIN, IRELAND, Wednesday May 4th, 2016 - Geochemists from Trinity College Dublin's School of Natural Sciences may have found a solution to a long-debated problem as to where - and how - life first ...

Large meteorite and comet impacts into the sea are now believed to have formed the nurseries from which life on Earth first sparked. Geochemists from Trinity College Dublin's School of Natural ...