Scientists believe a crater found in the Australian outback may be the oldest-known meteor crash site in the world. As AFP ...

What are some of the largest extraterrestrial impacts to effect Earth? Learn what we've seen in history, and what is important to know today.

Hike to the top of the Koppie and see how the massive Vredefort meteorite struck near Parys two billion years ago and tilted the Koppies’ quartzite ridges 30 degrees to the south. Melville ...

Everything is quiet, except for a little robot patiently trundling up the sides of Jezero Crater. Perseverance, affectionately known as “Percy,” doesn’t have the ability to appreciate the ...

Perseverance’s challenging three-and-a-half month climb out of Jezero Crater has definitely been worth it, with NASA reportedly discovering a fascinating array of rocks worthy of detailed ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a city-sized asteroid slammed into Earth near today’s Yucatán Peninsula, blasting out a huge crater named Chicxulub and unleashing chaos across the planet. Firestorms ...

This mosaic showing the Martian surface outside of Jezero Crater was taken by NASA’s Perseverance on Dec. 25, 2024, at the site where the rover cored a sample dubbed “Silver Mountain” from a ...

New research in Sweden has uncovered perplexingly high methane emissions coming from the largest meteorite crater in Europe. The Siljan Ring is a prehistoric impact structure in central Sweden ...

Markets continued to voice their displeasure Wednesday morning with President Donald Trump’s sweeping import tariffs as China announced its own retaliatory levies of 84% on U.S. products. That ...

James Turrell discusses his ongoing land art piece, Roden Crater, created within a pit formed by an extinct volcano in the Arizona desert. ART21: Where are we, right now? TURRELL: Well, right now ...

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