Cratera

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A meteorite over 2 km wide traveling at 60,000 km/h created a 21 km diameter crater in what is now Piauí, now confirmed as the second largest in South America, in a Brazilian study that took almost five decades and was published in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science.

Bruno Teles 26/05/2026 at 18:44

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The rare forest that grows hidden in a 662-meter-deep hole in China and intrigues scientists with plants adapted to low light

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 07/05/2026 at 09:44

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A new scar on the Moon reveals the impact of 2024, a crater 225 meters wide, the largest seen by the LRO probe in 17 years, rare every 139 years, with melted rocks.

Carla Teles 15/04/2026 at 20:35

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It seems to have come out of a science fiction movie: a Brazilian city houses a crater over 150 meters deep, equivalent to a 45-story building, which shaped the city’s growth; meet Pedreira Lageado in São Paulo.

Andriely Medeiros de Araújo 08/04/2026 at 06:41

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An impact crater has turned into agricultural land in Finland, and its almost perfect outline creates a circular design so strange that it resembles a landscape from another planet viewed from space.

Débora Araújo 04/04/2026 at 15:54

Cratera identificada em vulcão de 362 km em Vênus pode indicar caverna subterrânea formada por tubos de lava detectados por radar da sonda Magellan.

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Scientists Find Mysterious Crater In 362 km Giant Volcano On Venus And Suspect It Hides A Huge Underground Cave

Fabio Lucas Carvalho 14/03/2026 at 00:27

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Gigantic Crater in China Intrigues Scientists: Drilling 438 Meters Reveals Signs of Cosmic Impact That Occurred About 49,000 Years Ago in 1.85 km Structure That Draws Attention

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 13/03/2026 at 15:42

Cratera Jinlin surge preservada no sul da China, tem 900 metros e redefine o registro de impactos recentes de meteoritos durante o Holoceno

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Giant 900-Meter Crater Discovered in Southern China

Fabio Lucas Carvalho 15/11/2025 at 16:07

Asteroide coberto por lâminas de tectitos colide com a Terra e gera explosão de fogo e poeira na Austrália há 11 milhões de anos

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Giant Asteroid Transformed Earth 11 Million Years Ago — And Scientists Are Still Searching for the Lost Crater in Australia

Caio Aviz 18/10/2025 at 23:35

A cratera Estrutura de Aorounga, no Deserto do Saara, impressiona pela forma circular e histórias geológicas. Entenda como ela se formou e por que ainda é estudada.

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It Is 12.6 Km in Diameter, Looks Like a Giant Eye, and Was Formed 345 Million Years Ago: The Aorounga Crater Was Carved by a Meteor in the Sahara Desert and Continues to Intrigue Scientists Today

Ruth Rodrigues 30/06/2025 at 08:02

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50-Year Mystery Comes to an End: Giant Crater Known as ‘Portal to Hell’ Loses Power and Flame Nearly Goes Out After Historic Soviet Mistake

Fabio Lucas Carvalho 06/06/2025 at 20:04

O bairro de São Paulo que foi construído dentro de uma cratera de meteoro — e poucos sabem disso

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The Neighborhood in a Brazilian City Built Inside a Meteor Crater — And Few Know About It

Valdemar Medeiros 13/05/2025 at 12:26

A meteorite over 2 km wide traveling at 60,000 km/h created a 21 km diameter crater in what is now Piauí, now confirmed as the second largest in South America, in a Brazilian study that took almost five decades and was published in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science.

The rare forest that grows hidden in a 662-meter-deep hole in China and intrigues scientists with plants adapted to low light

A new scar on the Moon reveals the impact of 2024, a crater 225 meters wide, the largest seen by the LRO probe in 17 years, rare every 139 years, with melted rocks.

It seems to have come out of a science fiction movie: a Brazilian city houses a crater over 150 meters deep, equivalent to a 45-story building, which shaped the city’s growth; meet Pedreira Lageado in São Paulo.

An impact crater has turned into agricultural land in Finland, and its almost perfect outline creates a circular design so strange that it resembles a landscape from another planet viewed from space.

Scientists Find Mysterious Crater In 362 km Giant Volcano On Venus And Suspect It Hides A Huge Underground Cave

Gigantic Crater in China Intrigues Scientists: Drilling 438 Meters Reveals Signs of Cosmic Impact That Occurred About 49,000 Years Ago in 1.85 km Structure That Draws Attention

Giant 900-Meter Crater Discovered in Southern China

Giant Asteroid Transformed Earth 11 Million Years Ago — And Scientists Are Still Searching for the Lost Crater in Australia

It Is 12.6 Km in Diameter, Looks Like a Giant Eye, and Was Formed 345 Million Years Ago: The Aorounga Crater Was Carved by a Meteor in the Sahara Desert and Continues to Intrigue Scientists Today

50-Year Mystery Comes to an End: Giant Crater Known as ‘Portal to Hell’ Loses Power and Flame Nearly Goes Out After Historic Soviet Mistake

The Neighborhood in a Brazilian City Built Inside a Meteor Crater — And Few Know About It

The end of Nokia: the brand that was the cellphone of an entire generation has ended its smartphones, left Brazil, and today survives only in basic phones in India while seeking a new partner.

Dissatisfied with seeing people sleeping on the street, a man named Ryan Donais started building small mobile homes so that homeless people can escape the cold, each equipped with a bed, running water, electricity, and heating.

Cambodia has started digging a nearly 180-kilometer canal to connect the Mekong River directly to the sea and reduce its dependence on the ports of neighboring Vietnam.

China has put millions of electric cars on the roads, but now faces the side effect: more than 1 million tons of batteries are expected to go out of use per year by 2030, while the government expands tracking and combats illegal dismantling with environmental risks.

An Indonesian fisherman pulls a mysterious object from the sea and discovers that it is a Chinese underwater monitoring system, part of the so-called Underwater Great Wall that Beijing uses to track submarines and unmanned vehicles in strategic straits of the region.

Couple surprises by purchasing a village abandoned for 50 years in Spain for R$ 2 million and will rebuild about 60 stone houses in ruins and start a plan to restore everything as a self-sufficient ecovillage with solar energy, community gardens, and sustainable living.

To shorten a crossing that is currently done by sea from five hours to half an hour, the Philippines is building a 32-kilometer bridge over the water connecting the provinces of Bataan and Cavite.