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 ...

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 ...

While most tourists head to nearby attractions, adventurous hikers can take some less-traveled paths around Askja itself. The area is famous for its stark beauty and geological wonders but ...

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 ...

A hydrothermal vent along the Mid-At­lantic Ridge. © Marum, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Around 66 million years ago ...

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 ...

The steep selloff in U.S. government Treasury bonds alarmed investors across global markets as the tariff war between United States and China intensified, ensuring that even the traditionally safe ...

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 ...