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By Dec 23, 2020
Space

Astronomers made a poor bot count 100,000 moon craters

Thank you, patient algorithm, for the most extensive crater catalog yet.
By Nov 16, 2018
Space

There’s a giant crater the size of a city hiding under Greenland

But not everyone agrees it's from an asteroid impact.
By Sep 24, 2016
Space

An Incredibly Deep Ocean Could Be Hiding Beneath Pluto’s Icy Heart

Imagine the space-scuba diving potential
By Jul 13, 2016
Environment

Did An Asteroid Help The Dinosaurs?

Their global domination may have been boosted by a massive asteroid impact
By Apr 1, 2016
Space

Mile-High Mountains In Middle Of Mars Craters Were Built By Wind

Mystery solved, thanks to a sand box in a wind tunnel
By Jul 30, 2015
Space

It Looks Like Someone Drew On Saturn’s Moon Tethys With A Red Crayon

Like, a miles-wide crayon
By Jul 26, 2013
Science

Could An Asteroid Impact Knock The Moon Into Earth?

“If an asteroid hits the moon, it will just get another crater,” says Gareth Wynn-Williams, an astronomer at the University...
By Mar 27, 2013
Science

In The Same Cataclysm That Gave The Moon Its Craters, Lots Of Asteroids Suffered Too

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BigPic: A Frost-Covered Mountain Range On Pockmarked Mars

ESA's Mars Express orbiter snaps some 3-D images.
By Mar 22, 2012
Science

Mercury Has a Liquid Core, and Other New Surprises From the Innermost Planet

NASA’s Messenger spacecraft entered orbit around Mercury one year ago this week, and the spacecraft has been hard at work....