This year Route 66, America’s “Mother Road”, turns 100. Running for 2,448 miles from Chicago to Santa Monica, the world’s ...

Tackling the 2,448 miles from Chicago to Santa Monica revealed much about this polite, enthusiastic and eccentric country ...

The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...

Far-reaching implications for the possibilities of life on other planets!

I perched on the edge of disaster. Oddly enough, I wanted to laugh, perhaps in a strange effort to reduce the planet’s best ...

Africa's crater landscapes are a unique combination of natural beauty and geological wonder, making them perfect for trail ...

Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.

From orbit, Earth often looks more like art than geography. Satellites such as the European Union's Copernicus Sentinel missions are designed to turn that beauty into information. Rather than taking ...

This past week, nonagenarian Don Kelsey — a retired educator and handyman — visited Lowell Observatory with family and friends to introduce them to an old friend whose story threads through some of ...

The American landscape holds many hidden geological treasures, but few are as captivating as the Willamette Meteorite – the largest meteorite ever found in the United States and among the most ...

Space scientists have spotted a city-sized “butterfly” on Mars. A striking new image from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft has revealed a 20 km-wide crater resembling the ...

Meteor Crater sat quietly off Route 66 for tens of thousands of years, hiding its true scale until visitors reached the rim. Formed by a meteor impact roughly 50,000 years ago, it predated human ...