Impacts can carve out large craters because the mass and velocity of the impactor work together to shatter the landscape in much the same way as the mass and ...

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Top: Black and white image of the Moon from Moon Mineralogy Mapper data. Bottom: Map of water on the Moon. The different colors represent different shapes to the water absorption and correlate with ...

Long period comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) over the Pacific ocean, as imaged from Paranal Observatory in 2007. Credit: ESO/Sebastian Deiries The Gaia mission has allowed researchers to understand the ...

Experience the intersection of art and planetary science through the remarkable works of renowned artist, planetary scientist, and Planetary Science Institute co-founder William K. Hartmann and other ...

The Perseverance rover on Mars inspects a rock dubbed Cheyava Falls with the Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals (SHERLOC) instrument on its robotic arm.

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New research suggests that Ariel, a moon of Uranus, might have once harbored an ocean about 100 miles (170km) deep. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/PSI/Mikayla Kelley/Peter ...

Observations of the North Polar Layered Deposits exhibiting spiral troughs that confound flow models. Left: Mariner 9 image taken in 1972. (Credit Credit: NASA/JPL) Right: Mars Express image taken in ...

This week’s Sci-Art is a pastel drawing of the first image mosaic received from the Opportunity rover at Meridiani Planum on Mars. The area is a sediment-covered plain and was the 2004 landing site of ...

Oct. 28, 2024, TUCSON, Ariz. – The Moon and Mars are pocked with giant impact craters acquired very long ago, while there appears to be a dearth of them on Earth and Venus. Time may have healed many ...