Researchers found that magma chambers beneath Cascade Range volcanoes persist even when the volcanoes are dormant, ...

About 35 million years ago, an asteroid struck the ocean off the East Coast of North America, leaving behind a massive impact ...

Scientists found that an asteroid impact carved two massive canyons on the moon in minutes. High-speed debris helped shape ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover is making history by collecting handpicked Martian samples for future return to Earth. Scientists are eager to study these specimens to unlock secrets about Mars’ ancient ...

NASA's Perseverance rover collects Martian soil samples from Jezero Crater, revealing potential signs of past life on Mars.

While you can’t hike to the top, several short trails offer stellar views of Sunset Crater. Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument is a small park, and a convenient detour, on your way to or from ...

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

WASHINGTON - The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of Earth's natural wonders ... The object that struck the moon is estimated ...

The moon's Schrödinger impact basin near the south pole holds two grand canyons formed by an enormous asteroid collision 3.8 ...

A team of scientists at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), an institute of the Universities Space Research Association ...

Lunar debris slammed into the surface at speeds approaching "1 kilometer per second (3600 kilometers per hour or 2237 miles per hour)." ...

The energy to produce the grand canyons on the Moon is about 130 times larger than the energy in the global inventory of ...