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 ...

The South Pole-Aitken impact basin on the far side of the Moon formed in a southward impact (toward the bottom in the image). The basin has a radioactive “KREEP-rich” ejecta blanket on one side of 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 ...

As astronauts prepare for south-polar landings, a new look at the Moon’s biggest crater points to a pivotal moment in lunar history—and to the rocks you’ll want sampled next. A study led by Jeffrey ...

Material from the crater can "tell the story of the late evolution of the lunar magma ocean," scientists say. A giant impact crater on the moon may contain primordial pieces of the lunar mantle and ...