Scientists have long thought that the South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by a shallow-angle impact, but new research suggests ...

Projectiles flying faster than bullets from a blast 130 times bigger than the global nuclear stockpile helped form giant lunar canyons, according to a new study.

The chemical makeup of mineral inclusions preserved in impact glass hints at the site of a missing impact crater. Tektites are natural glass formed when debris falls back to Earth after a ...

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See where NASA Mars helicopter flew during its 10.5 mile (16.7 km) Jezero Crater trek. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Musk pushes out top Treasury official over effort to access US government payment ...

the Chesapeake Bay Crater, and the Chicxulub Event. These collisions illustrate the potential threat asteroids pose and their dramatic influence on the planet. Asteroids have always been a source ...

Mostly sunny with a high of 47 °F (8.3 °C). Winds variable. Night - Cloudy. Winds variable. The overnight low will be 27 °F (-2.8 °C). Mostly sunny today with a high of 45 °F (7.2 °C) and a ...

Moon Lidar is a visualization of the data collected by NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) mission. According to this factsheet, the visualization includes nearly six billion measurements.

the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10-15 kilometer in diameter, struck the Yucatán Peninsula (in current-day Mexico), creating a 200-kilometer-wide impact crater. This impact triggered a ...