Isachsen's quest began with a simple observation. He spreads a map out on the hood of his truck— a satellite image of New York State. "I first noticed this in the early 1970s," he says. "I had a grant ...

NASA selects Gale Crater as the Mars rover Curiosity landing site, targeting signs of habitability and evidence of water on Mars. In choosing the landing site, scientists had to balance many factors.

Johnston Ridge Observatory has been closed since a 2023 landslide, and it's still not open in 2026. Windy Ridge, on the ...

There are plenty of stunning lakes across America, but none like you’ll find at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon. Its namesake lake is the deepest in the country, with an average depth of 1,943 ...

Chinese scientists say they have confirmed that a bowl-shaped crater at the top of Baijifeng Mountain in the northeastern province of Jilin was caused by an exploding piece of matter from space.

Crater Trail is an unofficial feature of Rocky Mountain National Park, but it’s also a well-established one, having been in place for generations. Now, however, an environmental assessment conducted ...

The Mars Science Laboratory, better known as Curiosity, has sent back its first color photo from the Red Planet. Curiosity snapped this photo showing the rim of the Gale Crater, the 96-mile-wide ...

The deepest lake in the United States sits inside the wreckage of a volcano that destroyed itself. Crater Lake, in the ...

You're probably as eager as I am for new images of Pluto and Ceres as both New Horizons and Dawn push ever closer to their respective little worlds. Recent photos, of which there are only a few, ...

An interdisciplinary research team led by scientists from Freie Universität Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology has shown how deep lakes formed more than 9,500 years ago in the craters ...