Earth’s Forgotten Collisions: Where Ancient Impact Craters Have Been HidingBeneath Earth's seemingly calm surface lie hidden scars from colossal asteroid impacts. These ancient craters, buried by ice, sediment, and...
02 Mar, 2026, 04.12 PM IST
‘India’s Chandrayaan missions redefined lunar science for all’India successfully landed its third lunar mission, the Chandrayaan-3, 70 degrees to the south pole of the moon on August 23, 2023. India is...
10 Oct, 2024, 10.34 PM IST
US bomb from World War II buried at Japanese airport explodes, causing large crater in taxiwayAn unexploded US World War II bomb detonated at Miyazaki Airport in Japan, creating a large crater and leading to the cancellation of over ...
02 Oct, 2024, 05.42 PM IST
Chandrayaan-3 landed within a buried, one of the oldest craters on Moon: PRL-ISRO studyChandrayaan-3's Pragyan rover and Vikram lander have landed in an ancient, buried impact crater approximately 160 km in diameter and 4.4 km...
01 Oct, 2024, 07.17 PM IST
Chandrayaan-3 landed on a 3.85 bn-year-old lunar crater, says researcherIndia's Chandrayaan-3 mission has possibly landed in one of the Moon's oldest craters, dating back 3.85 billion years. Images from the Prag...
29 Sep, 2024, 10.49 AM IST
Asteroid’s impact may have led to mysterious 'Mega Tsunami’ on Mars, says reportAccording to a recent report, an asteroid’s impact on Mars may have been the cause of the mysterious "Mega Tsunami."
02 Dec, 2022, 10.27 PM IST
Mystery crater potentially caused by relative of dinosaur-killing asteroidIntriguingly, the crater, named "Nadir" after the nearby volcano Nadir Seamount, is of the same age as the Chicxulub impact caused by a hug...
19 Aug, 2022, 06.50 PM IST
Bolaven Plateau: People, places and things beyond headlinesA bit of astronomy and geology. It is about a meteorite.
11 Jan, 2020, 11.24 PM IST
A look at five biggest meteor crashes of all timeThe oldest recorded meteorite, the Ensisheim struck earth on November 7, 1492, in Ensisheim, France. A 330-pound stone dropped from the sky...
25 Jun, 2017, 12.00 AM IST
Ancient Mars hosted habitable environments: StudyThe extent of the global distribution of martian carbonates is not yet fully resolved and the early climate on the red planet is still subj...
25 May, 2016, 01.21 PM IST
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captures boulders on martian landslideThe landslide is relatively fresh, as many individual boulders still stand out above the main deposit, researchers said.
29 Dec, 2015, 12.31 PM IST
Gigantic water ice slab found on MarsResearchers have discovered an enormous ice slab on Mars, measuring 130 feet thick and covering an area equivalent to that of California an...
13 Sep, 2015, 02.44 PM IST
340 undiscovered meteorite impact sites on EarthAround 90 craters with a diameter of one to six kilometres and a further 250 with a diameter of 250 to 1000 meters are still awaiting disco...
01 Jul, 2015, 06.37 PM IST
Moon's most unusual volcano more massive than thoughtLead author and Durham University PhD student Jack Wilson said he was surprised by the gigantic scale of the explosion.
19 Mar, 2015, 05.17 PM IST
NASA probe indicates asteroid once had flowing waterVesta was once thought to be completely dry, incapable of retaining water because of the low temperatures and pressures at its surface.
26 Jan, 2015, 02.38 PM IST
Indian-American scholar to explore dinosaur extinctionGrants were also awarded to about 800 other US faculty members, according to the statement, who are conducting their research in 140 countr...
30 Aug, 2014, 03.37 PM IST
- Dinosaur whodunit: Is Shiva crater the missing link?
It could be the plot of a mega disaster movie. A huge asteroid, nearly 40 km in diameter, comes hurtling towards earth.
08 Nov, 2009, 09.58 AM IST