New close-up pics of Ceres show the dwarf planet’s features in detail, including tall, conical mountain; narrow, braided fractures and a large crater...
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has returned a spectacular new image of Tethys, a small, icy moon of Saturn.
This view of Tethys was taken by NASA’s Cassini...
Glasses formed by asteroid impacts are an important target to search for signs of ancient life on Mars, but until now they have not been detected on the...
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured an impressive picture of a fresh...
This new image from ESA’s Mars Express orbiter shows bluish wind-blown deposits inside eroded craters in the Arabia Terra region of Mars.
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This image is the last one captured and beamed back to Earth by NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft.
This image from MESSENGER is located within the floor of...
Planetary scientists using data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission have discovered a 124-mile-wide crater on the nearside...
Scientists from Alberta Geological Survey and the University of Alberta have discovered an 8 km wide bowl-shaped impact crater near Bow City in southern...
A new study published in Nature provides chemical, isotopic and physical evidence that groundwater found more than 3,200 feet deep under the Chesapeake...
Northern Arizona University scientist Prof Nadine Barlow and Dr Joseph Boyce from the University of Hawaii have discovered a new class of Martian impact...
According to a team of planetary scientists led by Dr Manuel Roda from the Utrecht University, a huge impact crater on Mars known as Aram Chaos formed...
A team of researchers at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Australia, has discovered 280 new craters on the Moon.
Spatial distribution of the 66...
Massive underground explosions, perhaps involving ice, have created the pits inside two large impact craters in the Thaumasia Planum region on Mars, say...
Geologists from the University of Saskatchewan and the Geological Survey of Canada have discovered a massive meteor impact from at least 130 million years...
European scientists have discovered a 100 km-wide crater, the result of a massive asteroid or comet impact a billion years before any other known collision...
Researchers have finished counting, outlining and cataloging a staggering 635,000 impact craters on Mars that are roughly a kilometer or more in diameter.
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An international team of scientists has suggested that asteroid impact craters may be the best place to look for signs of life on Mars and other planets.
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