Scientists are increasingly interested in lunar lava tubes. These underground formations offer natural protection from radiation and extrem...

Asteroid hit North Sea: A long-standing scientific debate has finally been resolved: the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea was formed ...

Beneath Earth's seemingly calm surface lie hidden scars from colossal asteroid impacts. These ancient craters, buried by ice, sediment, and...

Scientists have found a huge 900-meter-wide asteroid crater in Guangdong Province, China, three times more massive than the previously larg...

Scientists studying mysterious glass fragments in southern Australia have discovered they are likely remnants of an asteroid impact from 11...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt, a Harvard Observatory 'human computer,' revolutionized astronomy in the early 20th century. Despite facing gender b...

NASA's Perseverance rover found a skull-shaped rock on Mars in Jezero Crater. Scientists call it Skull Hill. It is likely a 'float rock' mo...

On June 30, 1908, a massive explosion occurred in Tunguska, Siberia, flattening 80 million trees. Scientists now believe it was an iron ast...

Scientists have detected a large underground cave near the Apollo 11 landing site on the moon. The cave, potentially 130 feet wide, could o...

Lal, Mursan and Hilsa are three craters on the surface of Mars, discovered by Ahmedabad's Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), that could ho...

As the celestial calendar progresses, enthusiasts eagerly anticipate not one but two astronomical marvels in the coming weeks. While the up...

An Irish news channel fell for a hoax, initially believing that a crater found at a Dublin beach might have been the outcome of a "cosmic e...

Vikram Sarabhai, founder of the Indian space programme, was born in 1919 in a family of textile barons. Among the world’s wealthiest indust...

The Moon also offers opportunities for other types of astronomy as well. Astronomers have lots of experience with optical and infrared tele...

On Earth, a strongly carbon 13 depleted signature from a paleo surface would indicate past microbes consumed microbially produced methane. ...

The oldest recorded meteorite, the Ensisheim struck earth on November 7, 1492, in Ensisheim, France. A 330-pound stone dropped from the sky...

Crater counts and radiometric ages from returned samples help derive age estimates for unsampled units on the Moon and other Solar System o...