Beneath Mount Erebus, researchers have found a hidden underground ecosystem that could rewrite history. This hidden world may ...

First look at the island may offer the picture of a dead caldera but a closer look reveals that the caldera actually holds a ...

Scientists with a new theory about how Earth’s early continents formed predicted where a superold impact crater should ...

This meant the impact had to be the same age as the Antarctic Member rocks, which we know are 3.5 billion years old. We had our age, and the record for the oldest impact crater on Earth.

The Savonoski Crater is a round hole in Alaska's Katmai National Park that has defied scientific explanation ever since it was discovered. Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice ...

“Much like the extreme conditions found on planets in our solar system, Antarctica has a [harsh ... set their sights on visiting a distant crater, but decided to turn back after estimating ...

But it has taken the most modern satellites to resolve the crater floor, and to verify the presence of the lake. Scientists from University College London and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS ...