A hidden crater in South Korea may hold clues to one of the biggest turning points in Earth’s history: the rise of oxygen. Scientists discovered fossil-like stromatolites — layered structures built by ...

Wikimedia This mountain town occupies the Middlesboro Basin, which sounds like a boring geography term until you learn that ...

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

NASA’s Perseverance rover may have found some of the oldest rocks ever studied on Mars at an outcrop named "Arethusa." ...

Ancient desert structures spotted from space are now at the center of a tense race between archaeology and modern gold mining ...

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

For centuries, Dante Alighieri’s Inferno has been treated as theology, political commentary and medieval literature folded ...

Hidden beneath the Antarctic ice, the Wilkes Land crater is a colossal depression that may be the largest impact crater on Earth. Stretching over 500 km wide and located about 1.6 km below the surface ...

Uncover the shocking history of the Chesapeake Bay, where a 53-mile-wide impact crater formed over 35 million years ago ...

Researchers have corrected the "flight path" of the ancient impactor that created the South Pole–Aitken Basin.

The Oregon Outback Scenic Byway near La Pine is one of those places, stretching 171 miles through terrain that’ll have you ...

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 ...