Meteor craters are incredible reminders of the powerful forces of nature and the history of our planet. These massive impact sites are created when asteroids or comets collide with Earth, leaving ...

Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.

Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest – but an independent analysis shows they might be off by ...

The crater in Western Australia was identified as the oldest in the world earlier this year, but new research suggests the ...

The Forest Service is advancing the Resolution Copper mine that would create a massive crater on land considered sacred by some members of the San Carlos Apache Tribe. The Trump administration has ...

A short-lived mining operation that involved a group of Phoenix investors in the late 1940s worked the high grade (99.7 percent) silica sands on the southerly slope of Meteor Crater for use in the ...

Space This is the asteroid that could crash into the Moon in 2032 and leave a crater visible from Earth It was seen as a potential threat to Earth, but it might just end up giving the Moon a black ...

Peter Day goes down Europe's second deepest mine - one mile below the North Sea, where there are 600 miles (1,000 km) of roadways leading to the potash face.

A Beijing-backed militia is protecting new rare earth mines in eastern Myanmar, near the border with Thailand, as China moves to secure control of the minerals it is wielding as a bargaining chip ...

Abandoned coal mines had left waterways acidic and rusty orange. Local residents are cleaning them up, and recovering valuable minerals in the process.

Western Victorian farmers have been left “shocked and disappointed” by the approval of a proposed rare earths mine that will cover more than 2500ha of arable farmland in the state’s Wimmera ...