Molten rock began shooting from the volcano before dawn on Monday when fissures opened in the caldera floor and propelled ...

Sudbury was very much a mining town. The city is in the basin of an old meteorite crater, with mines all round it. Fraser said that in the 1970s there were around 30,000 underground nickel miners ...

In late December 2024 and early January 2025, a photo circulated on multiple social media sites claiming to show an ice-capped crater on Mars (archived) that scientists recently discovered.

Well, look at that. The Perseverance rover has clambered out of the crater that’s been its cradle for nearly four years on the Red Planet. Perseverance landed on Mars in February 2021.

Asawa is the latest artist to lend their name to a planetary feature via the IAU naming committee. Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images My readers are coming from ...

Scientists investigating the Yellowstone supervolcano have discovered movement deep in the crater, sparking fears the sleeping giant could erupt. The volcano, located under Yellowstone National ...

New research published in the Earth and Planetary Science Letters journal suggests the moon's oldest crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, may be round, as opposed to the oval shape than scientists ...

NASA's Perseverance rover triumphantly celebrated the end of a tough climb out of the Jezero Crater on Mars with new images and a new science campaign. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers ...

The team this year has been driving the rover up the steep slopes of Jezero Crater, hoping to reach what they call Lookout Hill on the crest of the crater rim. That drive has proved to be a slog.

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Perseverance gained about 1,640 vertical feet during the epic climb on Mars, which took 3.5 months. NASA's Perseverance rover has finished an epic climb on Mars. The Perseverance rover crested the ...

Late in August, Perseverance began a slow ascent to the top of the Jezero Crater, where it originally landed. The milestone came at the same time as another NASA vehicle, its Ingenuity helicopter ...