Shutterstock / Kit Leong A strange pit was identified on Google Maps by a man, and the potential origin of the unique stretch ...

Protected from the harsh surface of Mars, such pits are believed to be good candidates to contain Martian life, making them prime targets for possible future spacecraft, robots and even human ...

Joël Lapointe discovered the likely crater with a spherical pit of about 15km (9.3miles) across surrounding Marsal Lake in ...

The three fell into a pit that opened up as the parents tried to save their son A boy and his parents have died after falling into a pit in a volcanic crater at Solfatara near Naples. The drama ...

This is a spectacular high-Sun view of the Mare Tranquillitatis pit crater revealing boulders on an otherwise smooth floor. This image from LRO's Narrow Angle Camera is 400 meters (1,312 feet ...

and it’s proved to be more than anyone could have imagined as the pit is still burning half a century on. For a while the crater’s future was at risk, as in 2010 the Turkmenistan president ...

Turkmenistan said on Friday it will capture the gas fuelling its "Gateway to Hell", putting the man-made fire pit at risk of ...

Before about 1900, 16 pit craters dimpled the surface from Luamanu to Napau. Some of the craters coalesced, so there are more craters than crater names; Hi’iaka had two craters, Pauahi three ...

During the winter season, when the nights grow longer and the desert wraps itself in a pleasant chill, the Nature and Parks ...

Turkmenistan has announced plans to close the pit before, including in 2022 when then-President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov warned the man-made crater was negatively affecting "both the environment ...

Turkmenistan said on Friday it will capture the gas fuelling its "Gateway to Hell", putting the man-made fire pit at risk of closure ... The 20-metre-deep Darvaza crater in a remote stretch ...