Scientists discover large bowl-shaped impact crater, the fifth found in China and the first in the country’s southern region.

Like Hiawatha, the new feature consists of a ring-shaped rim surrounding a depression with a peak at its center — consistent with a crater carved out by the impact of a large meteorite, says coauthor ...

Scientists have discovered a huge, mysterious mass of material beneath a large crater on the Moon. The mass is five times bigger than Hawaii's Big Island and is located hundreds of miles beneath the ...

HILO — Hawaiian Volcano Observatory confirms there was a large explosion around 8:30 a.m. in the “overlook crater” within Halema‘umaʻu at the summit of Kilauea volcano, creating an enormous plum of ...

The area of Russia is said to be called, ominously enough, the end of the world. And that's where researchers are headed this week, to investigate a large crater whose appearance reportedly caught ...

Through all of those changes, Amboy Crater - the large black cinder cone volcano that looms over Amboy and Route 66 - has ...

Throughout his career Ronald Greeley was passionate about exploring Mars, so it’s fitting that the late Arizona State University professor’s name will grace maps of the Red Planet. A large, ancient ...

Have you ever seen the Martian moon Phobos before? If you have, you’re probably well aware of how funky it looks. If you haven’t, then the best way we can describe it to you is it looks like a Death ...

A portion of the Tabernas Basin of southeastern Spain where researchers think a 400-meter-wide impactor struck some eight million years ago. Spain’s Almeria province has long been known as a shooting ...

New images taken by a spacecraft orbiting Mars are creeping out space fans. A camera on the European Space Agency’s Mars Express craft took the snaps of a large crater on the Red Planet. The unnamed ...