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

An exclusive, challenging hike is now available to guests visiting Meteor Crater. Here's how to visit the bottom like the ...

Nordlingen is no ordinary German town. With its red roofs, church towers, and ring of ancient walls, it wears its medieval ...

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

New research reveals that Dante Alighieri's Inferno wasn't just a masterpiece of literature: it was a gedankenexperiment in impact physics. From multi-ring craters to shockwaves that reshaped the ...

Two meteor showers, the Southern delta Aquarids and the alpha Capricornids, will peak simultaneously from July 30-31. The Perseids, considered the best meteor shower of the year, will peak between ...

Satellites have captured amazing views views of these craters on Earth. ESA explains. Nördlinger Ries, Ouarkziz Crater, Tenoumer Crater, Gosses Bluff, Siljan Ring, Roter Kamm, Manicouagan Crater, ...

The Hoba Meteorite. Image via Wiki Commons. The Hoba meteorite in Namibia is the largest known natural piece of iron on Earth, weighing about 60 metric tons today. By simple logic and physics, a metal ...

Impact craters form when extraterrestrial bodies collide with planetary surfaces at hypervelocity, generating intense shock waves that excavate material, produce melt and ejecta, and leave ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has announced it is probing the mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths or disappearances of 10 U.S. nuclear or aerospace research scientists in recent ...

The Lyrids meteor shower is underway and will soon peak. The meteor shower is known to produce around 10 to 20 meteors, or shooting stars, for the three nights around its peak, when stargazers will be ...