A Chinese rover that landed on Mars in 2021 detected evidence of underground beach deposits in an area thought to have once been the site of an ancient sea, providing further evidence that the planet ...

(Phys.org) -- Earlier today, just hours after NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars, a select group of images taken by the onboard Mars Descent Imager, or MARDI, were beamed back to Earth. The 297 ...

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The discovery of a vast, fresh impact scar on Mars began with what looked like a smudge in a routine weather snapshot. A ...

Asteroids with different spins and bonding strengths may be responsible for the vast variety of impact craters on Earth, including Arizona's Barringer Crater, new simulations show. When you purchase ...

A bold claim about Earth’s earliest known meteorite impact has been reevaluated after new evidence emerged from the Pilbara region of Western Australia. A site previously thought to host a 3.5-billion ...

The ocean floor is famously less explored than the surface of Mars. And when our team of scientists recently mapped the seabed, and ancient sediments beneath, we discovered what looks like an asteroid ...

A previously undiscovered asteroid crater off the coast of West Africa may hold some answers about how Dinosaurs went extinct. Approximately 66 million years ago, a large asteroid, whose crater is ...

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Chicxulub, the asteroid that wiped out most dinosaurs, might have had a little sibling. “The idea that [Chicxulub] had help — for want of a better phrase — would have really added insult to serious ...

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