An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

Meteors that fall to Earth are also often called “shooting stars” and are a common occurrence, according to NASA. While some ...

I am predisposed to like videos about meteorite craters but this was even more interesting than I anticipated. A nice example ...

Unlike older, more eroded impact sites, this crater preserves an almost pristine record of a meteorite’s devastating ...

Satellites have captured amazing views views of these craters on Earth. ESA explains. Nördlinger Ries Ouarkziz Crater ...

A decade ago, a mysterious crater appeared in the Russian Arctic, forming a huge jagged hole hundreds of feet wide. Since ...

If this is really an impact structure, it would be Venus' oldest and largest, giving us a rare glimpse into Venus' past and ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

Researchers have explored mysterious flow features on airless celestial bodies like Vesta, Ceres, and Europa. In their latest ...

On a large asteroid named Vesta, mysteriously curved gullies and fan-shaped deposits may have formed from short-lived flows ...

a colossal impact crater on the lunar farside. The SPA basin is not only the largest impact site on the Moon but also the oldest visible basin in the inner Solar System, formed over 4 billion years ...