Extreme temperatures and solar radiation make life on Mercury virtually impossible, but there sure are a lot of creatives who are thriving there—in the form of craters, that is. Ever since NASA ...
James Turrell discusses his ongoing land art piece, Roden Crater, created within a pit formed by an extinct volcano in the Arizona desert. ART21: Where are we, right now? TURRELL: Well, right now ...
The lava pouring from the ongoing volcanic eruption at the Sundhnúkur crater series on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula may be about to change direction. Since the eruption began on November 20 ...
Last month, the Japanese-American sculptor Ruth Asawa became the latest artist to have a crater named after them on the rocky planet, bringing the total number of women artists represented there ...
BAALBEK, Lebanon (AP) — In eastern Lebanon’s city of Baalbek, the Jawhari family gathered around a gaping crater where their home once stood, tears streaming as they tried to make sense of the ...
There are parasitic cones on the slopes which may be a little younger. One of them is associated with Lake Chala, an ancient crater lake. Reports from the 19th century that there had been a historical ...
After analyzing the sample, researchers found that the Moon’s oldest and deepest crater on its far side was volcanically active around 2.8 billion years ago. Another sample was even more ancient ...