Researchers have discovered an impact crater 900m in diameter in southern China. It hit less than 10,000 years ago, when ...

Site of half the world's active geysers and about the same size as Cyprus, Yellowstone National Park's scenery and wildlife make it one of the biggest draws for tourists in the US. But those famous ...

Why it's incredible: Evidence suggests it could be the greatest known impact crater on Earth. The Wilkes Land crater is a hole in the bedrock beneath East Antarctica's ice sheet measuring 315 miles ...

Scientists have found a huge 900-meter-wide asteroid crater in Guangdong Province, China, three times more massive than the previously largest called Holocene crater. Despite the area’s severe ...

A giant asteroid impact ended the age of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. How did this mass extinction play out, moment by ...

The volcano near Naples is shaking the ground in a way that scientists say it hasn't for centuries, posing risks for hundreds ...

Danish and Swedish researchers have dated the enormous Hiawatha impact crater, a 31 km-wide meteorite crater buried under a kilometer of Greenlandic ice. The dating ends speculation that the meteorite ...

Material from the crater can "tell the story of the late evolution of the lunar magma ocean," scientists say. A giant impact crater on the moon may contain primordial pieces of the lunar mantle and ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, ...

A buildup of methane and other fluids in open and closed "systems" in the permafrost could explain why strange, icy mounds sometimes erupt to form giant crater, researchers say. When you purchase ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Now, one such team has announced that it spotted a scar hidden below Greenland's ice, a giant ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A giant crater made by an asteroid or comet explains why Mars is so lopsided, with a basin on one hemisphere and high terrain on the other, three separate teams of scientists ...