Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, ...

Scientists have discovered living, methane-producing microbes deep inside a massive meteorite impact crater in Sweden, and ...

China has quietly confirmed that a vast circular scar in its northeast is not a volcanic basin or a quirk of erosion, but a ...

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As astronauts prepare for south-polar landings, a new look at the Moon’s biggest crater points to a pivotal moment in lunar ...

Understanding the moon’s seismic activity is critical to the success or failure of future lunar missions. Lunar seismic ...

Scientists have discovered living microbes producing methane in the fractured rocks deep inside Sweden's Siljan impact crater ...

It is by far India’s most famous and only fully confirmed meteorite crater lake. Located in the basaltic Deccan Traps, this ...

Ethiopia’s Hayli Gubbi volcano has roared back after millennia, sending ash across regions. Here’s 10 biggest volcanic blasts ...

A new scientific study is rewriting one of the most recognized origin stories in astronomy: how the Moon was formed may not ...