NASA 's Curiosity rover captured this extremely wide snapshot as it traversed its extraterrestrial stomping grounds in Gale Crater this February. The agency has since converted that data into a ...

By analyzing how far material ejected from an impact crater flies, scientists can locate buried glaciers and other interesting subsurface features.

Scientists have discovered a new way to uncover what lies beneath the surfaces of planets like Mars by studying the debris ...

Viewers in New York will get a chance to see Vesta close to opposition after the sun goes down on May 2. The asteroid will reach its highest point in the night sky approximately an hour after midnight ...

By studying the rock and other materials blasted out of a crater in an impact, planetary scientists say they were able to ...

Hera's mission is to look at the crater made by the deflection test to learn more about the asteroid's interior. "Our work suggests that ejecta that did not escape from the asteroid and blanketed ...

Images taken of Mars from orbit dating back as far as the 1970s have captured curious dark streaks running down the sides of ...

An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been ...

Kareta and his colleagues suspect that 2024 PT5 was excavated when something crashed into the moon. By studying the asteroid's composition, they hope to tie the material back to its source and perhaps ...