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 ...

These names are not meant to commemorate the towns themselves but to draw from a wide pool of options for planetary ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured a rare dark-rayed crater on Ganymede, offering fresh clues about the moon’s icy surface, ...

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

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

A French study has focused on a 120-kilometer wide crater located in the northern hemisphere of Mars. New evidence suggests ...

Volcanoes, with their sheer power and captivating beauty, have mesmerized the human imagination for centuries. These ...

At 900 meters, the giant crater in southern China is three times larger than the previous Holocene recorder holder.

TheJinlin crater, an enormous 900 meters across, is the largest known impact site from the Holocene, Earth’s current ...

Researchers confirmed the impact origin of the Jinlin crater: a 900-meter-wide remarkably young impact crater preserved on a ...