These data allow us to image this fully in three dimensions and peel back the layers of sedimentary rock to look at the crater at all ... There is a very small chance that Bennu, a similarly ...

Planet Earth is parting company with an asteroid that has been tagging along as a “mini moon” for the past two months.The ...

Since 2005 the Solfatara crater in Italy has been releasing increased volumes of gas, catching the attention of researchers ...

The small town of Nordlingen is built on an asteroid crater, and its buildings are filled with diamonds created by the ...

A team of astronomers believes the near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, a space rock between ... space to its source crater on the Moon and suggests the existence of more small asteroids composed ...

The craft's landing site was the bottom of Jezero Crater, where it has spent the ensuing years scouring the area's rocks and soil for evidence that life once existed on Mars. Late in August, ...

Around 900 years ago, a volcano – which has come to be called Sunset Crater – erupted and transformed the encircling area. Geologic features like cinders, lava rock and lava flow compose this ...

What is going on is that there is a small crater that formed on the rim ... which shows the moon's rocks and fine grey dust in detail.

The collision was devastating: rocks from deep within Earth ... It was named after Chicxulub Pueblo, a small town close to this point. The crater was first discovered by scientists working ...

But the rocks created by the cataclysmic event remain. A small hill in the middle of the ... able to pinpoint the exact age of the Yarrabubba crater. Their results showed it's more than 200 ...