A fissure on the northwestern crater wall of Makauopuhi Crater on the East Rift Zone of Kīlauea sent lava cascading into the ...

"This would directly link a specific asteroid in space to its source crater on the Moon and suggests the existence of more small asteroids composed of lunar material yet to be discovered in near ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an ...

Researchers have imaged a hidden scar, which is the evidence of a cataclysmic event that impacted Earth millions of years ago ...

The analysis of rocks drilled in 2016 from the leftover crater show they underwent a process of fluidisation. The pulverised material literally began to behave as if it were a substance like water.

Meteor Crater was created more than 50,000 years ago by a massive meteor strike near Winslow, Arizona. Visitors can experience the 550-foot-deep and nearly mile-wide cavity from an air-conditioned ...

The federal government announced this week that it is considering listing an Oregon newt that lives only at Crater Lake National Park as threatened or endangered because an invasive predator has ...

The possibility that Saudi Arabia will lift the “floodgates” on its oil production has climbed in recent weeks, fueled by “deteriorating cohesion” among the group of major oil producers ...

HILO — Much of the lava from Kilauea volcano’s lower East Rift Zone has changed course on the lower end of the flow, according to Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Snyder said the lava was less ...

Before the 1955 lower ERZ eruption, the last eruption on the ERZ had taken place near Makaopuhi Crater in 1923. Following the 1960 Kapoho eruption and three quick summit eruptions in the first ...