The possibility that Saudi Arabia will lift the “floodgates” on its oil production has climbed in recent weeks, fueled by “deteriorating cohesion” among the group of major oil producers ...

Newly published images from Heriot-Watt University show the 9km wide Nadir Crater under the Atlantic, formed by an asteroid around the same time dinosaurs went extinct. Detailed 3D imaging has ...

Beneath the vast waters of the Atlantic Ocean lies a secret that’s been waiting to be told. Scientists have revealed images of an asteroid impact crater buried 300 meters under the ocean floor, ...

A child’s swing hung from a branch. Between the houses, a vintage, yellow pickup truck sat at the bottom of the small crater, a wooden fence and a cluster of crape myrtles leaning across it.

The federal government announced this week that it is considering listing an Oregon newt that lives only at Crater Lake National Park as threatened or endangered because an invasive predator has ...

Crater Lake's famously pure water and a newt that calls the lake home are under threat from the explosion of an invasive crayfish, leading to potential action under the Endangered Species Act, the ...

The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. And, until now, it had been assumed that the asteroid acted alone. This week, scientists at Scotland ...

In addition to a general deepening, big chunks have been lost from the interior cliff walls, particularly at the southern end of the crater. There is evidence of continued infall of loose material ...

The discovery of what seems to be a second impact crater on the other side of the Atlantic, of a very similar age, is raising these questions. It's not as big as the one we know at Chicxulub in ...