Billions of years ago, something slammed into the dark side of the moon and carved out a very, very large hole. Stretching 1,550 miles (2,500 kilometers) wide and 8 miles (13 km) deep, the South ...

Just like our planet, neighboring Mars is getting bombarded with space rocks of various shapes and sizes almost on a daily basis. It is estimated that more than 200 asteroids worth taking into account ...

Like Hiawatha, the new feature consists of a ring-shaped rim surrounding a depression with a peak at its center — consistent with a crater carved out by the impact of a large meteorite, says coauthor ...

"We found that an impactor about three miles across would create a crater of the right dimensions," Baijal said. "The crater's formation is consistent with both scenarios of Psyche's makeup." Unlike ...

This image, taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft, shows crater Lomonosov on the Moon’s far side. AMIE obtained the image on 30 January 2006 from a ...