Researchers use the sophisticated technology on NASA's Perseverance rover to analyze volcanic rocks in Mars' Jezero Crater. Their findings show that some of the same volcanic processes that led to ...

Strangest of all, scientists have found that its gusts of gas are loaded with tiny crystals of metallic gold, no larger than 20 micrometers. Over the course of a single day, it's estimated that the ...

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.

Why it's incredible: Evidence suggests it could be the greatest known impact crater on Earth. The Wilkes Land crater is a hole in the bedrock beneath East Antarctica's ice sheet measuring 315 ...

The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after analyzing deeply drilled rock core from the impact site ...

Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence suggests the subglacial hole is an impact crater measuring 315 miles across.

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 ...