craters

A new way to find old impact craters: Look at the burned plants

Apocalyptic asteroid impacts burn everything around them, which helps ID them.

By Phil Plait | 

2 weeks ago

Wait. If the Moon has no magnetic field, then what’s the magnetic force on its surface?

So maybe that's why lunar ice doesn't melt.

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

5 months ago

Mars has been getting beat up by asteroids for 600 million years

Even if things had lived there, they probably wouldn't have wanted to hang around.

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

7 months ago

Landslides on the Moon? Get a Klute.

By Phil Plait | 

1 year ago

What created this enormous spiral in the Martian north pole? Wind. And Time.

By Phil Plait | 

1 year ago

Exploring the Moon's inky black craters… by the light of the Earth

By Phil Plait | 

2 years ago

Watch out, Avengers: This asteroid has a more violent track record than Thanos

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

2 years ago

Did a two-billion-year-old monster impact save the Earth from being a snowball?

By Phil Plait | 

2 years ago

Incoming! Scientists pinpoint impact crater of ancient Asian meteor strike

By Jeff Spry | 

2 years ago

India's Chandrayaan-2 sees boulders and craters on the Moon

By Phil Plait | 

2 years ago