78 million years ago, a 1.6 km asteroid slammed into what is now Finland, creating a crater 23 km (14 mi) wide and 750 km ...

In a scientific breakthrough with cosmic implications, researchers have, for the first time, precisely dated the emergence of ...

A planetary scientist walks through the sensors and systems that went into the recent detection of potential biosignatures.

The NASA Perseverance rover has conducted a three-year exploration at the bottom of Jezero Crater, located north of the ...

A crater on Mars has a bright patch of ice. It's the second time in over a decade that the crater and ice has been observed ...

Researchers who examined data from Perseverance found that the rocks contained organics that could have been the precursors ...

NASA's search for evidence of past life on Mars just produced an exciting update. On Sept. 10, 2025, a team of scientists ...

For a moment, it seemed like a blast from the past: a plume over Mount St. Helens on Tuesday looked like the volcano might be ...

Crater Lake National Park is gearing up for the 11th annual "Ride the Rim" days, scheduled for September 6 and 13, 2025.

Visiting Crater Lake National Park and other nearby scenic areas over the next week may be impacted by two large events.

The USGS said the camera “caught the whirlwind kicking up loose ash deposits along the active fountain and flow within Halemaʻumaʻu crater.” ...