Well, look at that. The Perseverance rover has clambered out of the crater that’s been its cradle for nearly four years on the Red Planet. Perseverance landed on Mars in February 2021.

The carcass of the female juvenile mammoth, nicknamed Yana, was discovered by local residents after a permafrost crater expanded, according to Russian state media outlet TASS. “We can say it is ...

NASA's Perseverance rover triumphantly celebrated the end of a tough climb out of the Jezero Crater on Mars with new images and a new science campaign. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers ...

Tsar Bomba’s resulting destruction was significant. Today, there remains a lasting scar on the area where it was detonated. Radiation spread across a vast distance as well. Soviet weapons ...

The Batagaika crater, aptly nicknamed the "Gateway to Hell," is not just a geological curiosity, it's a stark reminder of the rapid changes our planet is undergoing. Imagine a gash in the Earth so ...

Why it's incredible: The crater has a unique oval shape and asymmetric sides. The Hailin impact crater is a giant gouge in a Chinese hillside that was left by a asteroid which smashed into Earth ...

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 ...

Tsar Bomba was a three-stage device, involving the fusion of hydrogen isotopes. A modified Tu-95 bomber codenamed “Bear” dropped it from the air. On the day the iconic bomb was dropped ...

The harsh cold of Siberia has preserved the baby mammoth's remains almost perfectly Russian scientists have unveiled the remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth found in thawing permafrost in ...

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The simulation for Russia's Tsar Bomba also showed the heavy blast damage radius, where heavily built concrete buildings would be damaged or demolished and deaths would reach 100 percent.