Asteroids with different spins and bonding strengths may be responsible for the vast variety of impact craters on Earth, including Arizona's Barringer Crater, new simulations show. When you purchase ...

The European Space Agency shared a striking Mars image. It shows a crater shaped like butterfly wings. The photograph came ...

Mars Express has found a unique butterfly-shaped crater on Mars. This formation resulted from a space rock hitting at a low angle. The impact ejected debris in two lobes, creating wing-like structures ...

Like it or not, nature is not a sharpshooter, and when it comes to rocks falling out of the sky on any given planet, it’s anybody’s guess as to where they’re going to hit. But it’s borderline ...

Researchers have discovered an impact crater 900m in diameter in southern China. It hit less than 10,000 years ago, when ...

Most of Mars’ ancient sedimentary rocks by volume are in wind-eroded sedimentary mounds, but the connections between mound form and wind erosion are unclear. We perform mesoscale simulations of ...

The study of impact crater geology and shock metamorphism offers a vital window into the extreme conditions that have shaped planetary surfaces. Impact events, whether from solitary projectiles or ...

It is a scientific consensus that water once flowed on Mars, and that it had a denser atmosphere, meaning that it was once ...

A research group from Kobe University has demonstrated that the heat generated by the impact of a small astronomical body could enable aqueous alteration (*1) and organic solid formation to occur on ...

On March 4, 2022, a lonely, spent rocket booster will smack into the surface of the Moon at nearly 6,000 mph. Once the dust has settled, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will move into position to ...