That permafrost thickness is of particular concern because it is tied to human-caused pollution. Actions such as burning ...

The mysterious holes popping out of nowhere were actually little wounds caused by explosions triggered by a gas trapped below.

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

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

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.

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Scientists have, for the first time, pinned down exactly when microbes colonized a meteorite impact crater. The team shows ...

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

The Moon has always been a plain, grayscale, landscape. Its plains and craters offer some variety, but the lunar surface ...