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<!-- -->A view of the Batagaika crater, as permafrost thaws causing a megaslump in the eroding.Batagai, Russia: Stunning drone footage has revealed details of the Batagaika crater, a one kilometre long gash in Russia's Far East that…

BATAGAI, Russia : Stunning drone footage has revealed details of the Batagaika crater, a one kilometre long gash in Russia's Far East that forms the world's biggest permafrost crater.In the video two explorers clamber across uneven…

The Ramgarh crater has been recognised as the 200th crater of the World Geo-Heritage. (Photo: Wikipedia/ ChetanKJain)Ramgarh Crater will be developed as a tourist attraction at a cost of Rs 57.22 crore and the work has already started. This…

A DELAY OF MONTHS Olivier de Weck, a professor of astronautics and engineering at MIT, told AFP that "the radius of debris and disturbance was probably bigger than anybody anticipated". "The main damage to the launch pad is underneath,…

<!-- -->Some apartments in the city were wrecked by the blast.Moscow, Russia: Russia said one of its fighter jets lost ammunition over Belgorod near the Ukrainian border on Thursday, after local authorities reported a blast that…

Scientists at the European Space Agency, in conjunction with NASA, have created a realistic computer simulation that takes you on a flight over what was once a lake on Mars. Since 2004, the ESA's Mars Express spacecraft has been orbiting…

With the aim of creating an appealing brand, the name of the 'Domaine du Météore' winery near the town of Béziers in Southern France points to a local peculiarity: one of its vineyards lies in a round, 200-metre-wide depression that…

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Two NASA spacecraft at Mars — one on the surface and the other in orbit — have recorded the biggest meteor strikes and impact craters yet.The high-speed barrages last year sent seismic waves rippling thousands of miles across Mars, the…

About two billion years ago, an impactor hurtled toward Earth, crashing into the planet in an area near present-day Johannesburg, South Africa. The impactor -- most likely an asteroid -- formed what is today the biggest crater on our…