"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 ...

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

A child’s swing hung from a branch. Between the houses, a vintage, yellow pickup truck sat at the bottom of the small crater, a wooden fence and a cluster of crape myrtles leaning across it.

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 ...

About 35 million years ago, an asteroid collided with the ocean off the East Coast of North America, creating a 25-mile diameter crater now buried beneath the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia and Maryland.

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.

NASA reports the team has spent the last several months coaxing Perseverance up the steep side of Jezero Crater, but they've found a technique that keeps the robot moving. As Perseverance ascended ...

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 ...

Crater Lake's famously pure water and a newt that calls the lake home are under threat from the explosion of an invasive crayfish, leading to potential action under the Endangered Species Act, the ...