Discover the list of the top 9 largest impact craters on Earth, including the Vredefort Dome, Chicxulub crater, and other ...

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy.

Space agencies could change their targets for metals from asteroids to the Moon, as platinum minerals could be spread across the Moon’s craters.

In western Siberia, a rare kind of gas explosion is carving deep, near vertical craters in the tundra. Some of these massive ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Geologists have now unearthed evidence of a 3.5 billion-year-old crater found in a layer of Australian ...

Minerals like platinum-group metals, including platinum, palladium, and rhodium, could be scattered across the nearly 6,500 ...

Satellite view of the Bosumtwi Impact Crater showing areas of Artisanal and Small scale Gold Mining activities. Credit: David Baratoux Satellite view of the Bosumtwi Impact Crater showing areas of ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Geologists have now unearthed evidence of a 3.5 billion-year-old crater found in a layer of Australian ...

Perseverance rover data shows Jezero Crater once held a calm lake, leaving behind mudstones rich in organic-linked minerals.

NASA’s Perseverance rover revealed 24 mineral types in Jezero Crater, showing Mars experienced several water episodes.

On the remote Yamal and Gydan peninsulas of western Siberia, the landscape is marked by massive craters that look as though ...

Geologists have now unearthed evidence of a 3.5 billion-year-old crater found in a layer of Australian rock. Shatter cones, which are features caused by the shockwave of a hypervelocity meteorite ...