Ik Kil Cenote in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula blends breathtaking natural beauty with deep Mayan history. Formed after a massive asteroid impact, it was once a sacred site for rituals to the rain god ...

A dive into a Yucatán Peninsula cenote revealed a creature quietly keeping an entire ecosystem alive.

Separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, the Yucatan is a flat expanse covering some 181,000km² and the site of ...

An analysis of three major craters on Earth created by meteor impacts shows that the large space rocks we usually blame for ending life are the ones that actually created the perfect conditions for ...

Look up at a full Moon on a clear night and you are staring at a face that has been punched, gouged, and battered for four billion years. Those dark patches are vast basins blasted open by impacts so ...

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HOUSTON — Lunar love knows no bounds. Now hurtling home from the moon, the Artemis II astronauts took a poignant page from Apollo 8 earlier this week, proposing deeply personal names for a pair of ...

Aboard NASA’s Artemis II, Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen traveled to the far side of the moon, going farther in space than any human in history. On ...

For all its ancient, familiar features, the Moon is still changing—and sometimes in dramatic ways. Scientists recently identified a fresh 22-meter-wide crater by comparing orbital images taken years ...

HOUSTON — A bright spot on the Moon now carries the name of a Friendswood mom, nurse, and wife who died too soon. Carroll Taylor Wiseman, 46, passed away on May 17 in Friendswood, Texas, after a ...

RICHMOND, Va. — A Virginia woman and VCU graduate who left earth too soon will be forever remembered on the moon. The Artemis II crew suggested naming one of two small craters discovered on their ...