Mars, often imagined as a lifeless desert battered by radiation and cold, holds within its crust the haunting memory of a ...

Curiosity stitched 291 Mastcam photos into a color-balanced 360° panorama of Gale Crater’s “boxwork” ridges—spiderweb-like ...

The "Golden Handle" appears each month when the sun illuminates a mountain range lining a vast impact crater. Saturday night ...

The landscape is stark, dark and dramatic, formed by a series of eruptions in the last 16,000 years that have stacked layer ...

"If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, it will (statistically speaking) be the largest impact in approximately 5,000 years," ...

If you’ve been following the ongoing episodic summit eruption of Kīlauea volcano on the Big Island, you might have seen the ...

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of ...

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

A hidden box-lattice suggests groundwater sculpted Mars long after surface water fled; Curiosity’s drills aim to confirm the ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact ...

En route to the asteroid system Didymos, Hera will reach its closest point to Mars on March 12. It will use the gravitational pull of the Red Planet to create a slingshot effect, accelerating the ...