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 ...

A decades-long fight over what carved a vast crater deep beneath the North Sea seabed has ended. Microscopic “shocked” crystals, forged only under the brutal pressures of an asteroid strike, have ...

Moments after the crew of Artemis 2 broke the spaceflight record for the farthest humans have ever been from Earth, the crew shared an emotional moment, proposing to name a crater on the Moon after ...

A once-in-a-century crater formed on the moon right under our noses. A routine search of images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter camera found a fresh crater as wide as two American football ...

One debate about the origin of life on Earth concerns whether it formed around deep-sea hydrothermal vents or in scars left behind by an asteroid impact. A new review article analyzes recent research ...

In the long shadow of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, life appears to have bounced back with surprising speed. A new analysis of sedimentation rates suggests that the first wave of marine ...

Today, they’re hidden behind the scenes of the park’s main attraction: Crater Lake. The epic size, dramatic framing and vivid blue of the 2,000-foot-deep lake never fail to dazzle visitors. Formed ...

Rejoice, Gerard Butler fans (Butlerians?), the latest action movie from everyone’s favorite grizzled action star has arrived. Greenland 2: Migration, a direct sequel to 2020’s apocalyptic odyssey ...

Cosmic “touchdown airbursts” — explosions of comets or asteroids above Earth’s surface — may be far more common and destructive than previously thought, according to new research. Unlike ...

The European Space Agency has released new images of a rare "butterfly" crater on the Red Planet. The bug-like structure sports a pair of smooth, rocky wings, which were likely "fluidized" by buried ...