From a 40-kilometer “eye” in the Sahara to the 200-kilometer Chicxulub crater that helped wipe out the dinosaurs, Earth’s strangest circles are more than weird shapes seen from space. Some were carved ...

The same process that allows rock to flow like liquid during impact events allows 'peak rings' to form in large craters. Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid the size of a small city smashed into ...

The Indian Embassy in Moscow said it was working with local authorities and the company employing the workers to provide all ...

Two sisters in Rajasthan’s Jodhpur died by suicide within weeks. On March 20, the elder sister died by suicide after years of ...

Scientists have confirmed a massive impact crater, Nadir Crater, hidden beneath the Atlantic Ocean off West Africa using ...

When atmospheric chemists Paul Crutzen and John Birks added smoke into their computer models of nuclear war scenarios, they ...

Dante's Inferno describes Hell as a vast, inverted conical pit beneath the Earth's surface, narrowing downward through nine ...

Dante’s vision of Hell may echo the physics of a massive asteroid strike, offering a new way to read the Inferno.

Dante’s Inferno may have been far more than a religious epic. New research argues that the 14th-century poet essentially ...

For centuries, Dante Alighieri’s Inferno has been read as a moral and spiritual descent, a journey into sin, punishment, and ...

A provocative new study suggests Dante’s Inferno may have secretly doubled as a giant cosmic impact scenario centuries before ...