Satellites have captured amazing views views of these craters on Earth. ESA explains. Nördlinger Ries, Ouarkziz Crater, ...

Meteor craters are incredible reminders of the powerful forces of nature and the history of our planet. These massive impact sites are created when asteroids or comets collide with Earth, leaving ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact ...

Some people see bumps, but others see craters. What you’re seeing is known as the crater illusion, or sometimes relief inversion.

The landscape is stark, dark and dramatic, formed by a series of eruptions in the last 16,000 years that have stacked layer ...

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Earth is no longer at risk of a direct collision with the asteroid 2024 YR4, but an impact on the moon in 2032 could send ...

Despite being covered in impact craters that could potentially send pieces of the planet into space, we have never found a ...

If you’ve been following the ongoing episodic summit eruption of Kīlauea volcano on the Big Island, you might have seen the ...

More information: Sara C. Cuevas-Quiñones et al, Evidence for a composite volcano on the rim of Jezero crater on Mars, Communications Earth & Environment (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02329-7 ...

NASA images reveal shallow ice beneath Mars’s surface, offering a promising water source for future astronauts and clues to ...

Life outside the Earth is one of the biggest "what if" in history, but NASA is trying to put a end to the discussion - or add ...