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An attempt to detonate or diffuse the bomb failed, so Officer Brian Murray and three others were lowered into the crater.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

A long-running debate about a mysterious crater hidden beneath the North Sea has finally been settled.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 30, 2026

The market cap for the president’s memecoin reached a peak of nearly $15 billion before prices began to crater within days of its launch, recently veering below $400 million.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

From a gas crater dubbed the "Gateway to Hell" to the shimmering marble buildings of its capital, Turkmenistan is tentatively opening up to tourists after decades of isolation.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

Lightning blasted a crater where the voice had been speaking.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Unlike Earth, the Moon has no active plate tectonics, flowing water, or substantial atmosphere to rapidly erase old craters.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026

Iranian strikes have also heavily hit US refuelling and surveillance aircraft at Prince Sultan Airbase in Saudi Arabia, expert analysis of satellite images show, with damaged aircraft and smoking craters clearly visible.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

The research suggests Dante intuitively described features that resemble multi-ring craters formed by giant impacts.

From Science Daily ● May 11, 2026

They were also granted the honor of naming two moon craters — one after their moonship capsule Integrity and the other after Commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife Carroll.

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2026

The hood was badly dented, like somebody had tried to hammer out some huge craters.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

If now the telescope be directed to Alkes, there will be found, following him at a distance of 42·5 s, and about one minute southerly, a small red star, R. Crateris.

From Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction. by Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony)

This is R Crateris, now known to be variable from above the 8th magnitude to below the 9th.

From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by Gore, J. Ellard

The star Alkes, or α Crateris, must first be found.

From Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction. by Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony)

The unincorporated area, carved out of the Florida wilderness in the 1950s, mushroomed beginning in the 1990s, cratered during the 2007-10 subprime-mortgage crisis and has been climbing its way back since.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Each attempt went bust when global economic downturns cratered the semiconductor market and sent chip prices plummeting.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026

The Emmys still draw consumer attention to a series — or a streamer — despite the fact that ratings for awards telecasts have cratered since the pandemic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

During the encounter, the spacecraft captured a series of images, including a striking view of the double-ring Huygens crater surrounded by the heavily cratered southern highlands of Mars.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2026

If the Moon is so severely cratered by impacts, how has the Earth avoided them?

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

The cratering of the electric-vehicle market after the end of a federal tax credit last fall also dented sales.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

But the broader policy has remained in place and “the numbers are still cratering on them,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026

Either way, his poll numbers have been cratering for the last two months.

From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2026

The duties came as the company was facing a triple whammy of cratering sales in China, stagnant demand in Europe and the costs of investing into electric cars despite patchy demand.

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

Thus, very roughly, craters on the Moon should be formed today at the rate of about 109 years/104 craters, = 105 years/crater, a hundred thousand years between cratering events.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan