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

A team of planetary scientists has developed a promising new way to peer beneath the dusty surface of Mars and other planetary bodies. A new study finds that ejecta blankets—the layers of rock and ...

Arizona's Meteor Crater and other scars leftover from collisions with space rocks continue to serve up their secrets. Meteor Crater formed some 50,000 years ago. It represents the best preserved ...

Most lunar craters that we know of date back millions, if not billions, of years, making evidence of a recent impact a rare ...

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New research shows that craters near the moon's south pole that have been in permanent shadow the longest are more likely to ...