Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Moon's largest impact feature, the South Pole–Aitken basin, is so named because it stretches between Aitken crater and the ...

What new methods can be developed to study the Martian subsurface? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Planets hopes to address as an international team of ...

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 ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact struck with such force that it carved out a vast crater, later buried ...