Craters, craters, and yet more craters: this snapshot from ESA's Mars Express is packed full of them, each as fascinating as ...

Parts of Siberia's landscape are a ticking time bomb. Giant craters started mysteriously appearing 10 years ago. A team of scientists think they finally know why. Tucked away in the frigid northern ...

A team of planetary scientists has developed a promising new way to peer beneath the dusty surface of Mars and other planetary bodies. A new study finds that ejecta blankets -- the layers of rock and ...

Researchers believe they have found an explanation for Siberia's mysterious exploding craters — and it has to do with rising global temperatures. Starting in 2012, giant craters were spotted in ...

Large craters in the tundra on Russia’s Yamal Peninsula are formed by a combination of warming and osmosis. (CREDIT: Adobe Stock/Alexander Lutsenko) Over the last ten years, strange craters have torn ...

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy. Some geologists were adamant that an asteroid produced the nearly-perfect ...

While conducting a sonar mapping mission at the bottom of Lake Michigan within the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary, researchers came across something unusual. The sanctuary is a ...

Asawa is the latest artist to lend their name to a planetary feature via the IAU naming committee. Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images My readers are coming from an ...