Rocks were flying everywhere, willy-nilly, smacking into the newly formed planets, pocking them with craters and gouging out ...

The Hidden Story of the Venus Impact In our cosmic neighborhood's tumultuous youth, chaos reigned supreme. Picture a celestial shooting gallery where rocky projectiles careened through space, ...

But new research has revealed that there were at least two dinosaur-killing asteroids. The impact crater of the second one lies unseen, 300m under the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. Discovered in ...

Further study, together with the magnetic and gravity data, confirmed the site as an impact event, named for the nearby ...

The small satellite survived an impact that was either caused by a micrometeorite or a small piece of space junk.

Mars is a planet marked by thousands of craters, but what makes some of them truly bizarre? Thanks to the HiRISE camera ...

That's the conclusion of new research led by planetary scientists at Harvard University, who propose that magnetic-pole reversals gave the mistaken impression that Mars' magnetic dynamo had stopped by ...

Its capabilities allowed the researchers to see the LCROSS crater directly and confirm that changes to radar-based reflectivity seen by LRO after the impact corresponded to a new crater.

As a result, he added, the current evidence for a cosmic impact is based heavily on the measurements taken from the more ...

Among other things, the study proved that the crater was, in fact, the result of an asteroid impact and that it took place around the same time as the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs ...

New research suggests Saturn’s moon Titan may possess a crust of methane ice that warms its interior, promoting the ...