New findings from NASA's Perseverance rover have revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks altered by subsurface ...

Bright white rocks spotted by NASA’s Perseverance rover are rewriting what we thought we knew about ancient Mars. These ...

So if you come expecting a crater with a rim, you will miss the point entirely.

Although Mercury was geologically active in its early days, today its surface appears almost completely static. This is why ...

Vandals tagged a boulder and other items in Yosemite National Park, sparking outrage at the “disgraceful” act. An Instagram ...

Nearing its fourth year of exploration, NASA’s Perseverance rover continues its mission to uncover signs of ancient microbial ...

Small, pale rocks scattered across Mars' reddish surface are offering fresh clues that parts of the planet may once have been far wetter than they are ...

Peter Aleshire’s article about Meteor Crater, published in the Jan. 16 Independent, combined in my mind with an article I wrote that was published on Nov. 22, 2024 about the ...

Billions of years ago, the Moon was just like Earth, with a solid core, molten mantle, and low-density rocks stuffed in its ...

A newly identified impact scar in southern China has turned a quiet patch of countryside into one of the most important ...

In a small northwest Iowa town built atop a 74-million-year-old meteorite crater, even the drinking water carries remnants of ...

After full moon, the terminator returns, but this time on the moon's opposite side, where it marks the line of advancing ...