Detailed images of the 66-million-year-old Nadir Crater offer new insights into catastrophic asteroid impacts, showing ...

This is true, but why? The answer is not that the equator possesses some magical ability to fend off the devastating storms, ...

They have started using 3D-printing technology to generate molds to produce intricate ... fact that Jupiter’s lightning storms congregate at the poles of the planet (Earth’s lightning storms are more ...

Impact craters found around the Earth that were made around the same ... The debris from the breakup then coalesced in a ring around the Equator, a scenario that may be linked to dramatic changes ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Oct. 14, 2024, the moon is 12 days old and is in the Waxing Gibbous phase of its lunar ...

Getting people to accept change, especially when it comes to climate, is difficult, but it has been working in one sector: ...

The team believes that as a large asteroid was making a close pass to Earth, tidal forces ripped it apart. The resulting debris settled into a ring around the equator and over millions of years ...

Look at any image of Jupiter and one feature is hard to ignore—its “Great Red Spot,” a massive storm raging close to its equator ... roughly the diameter of Earth, the Great Red Spot ...

How did the Moon form? Was it from a collision, as has been the longstanding theory, or could it have been captured by the ...

October 16 and 17 brings the full Hunter's Moon, and it's going to be a good one. The closest full supermoon of the year, it ...

The sun just unleashed one of its largest solar explosions in recent years, temporarily causing a radio blackout on Earth and spitting ... AR3842 near the solar equator at around 6 p.m. ET on ...

Using models of how Earth’s tectonic plates moved in the past, we mapped out where all these craters were when they first formed. We found all of the craters are on continents that were close to the ...