Probably 99% of people know Everest is the tallest mountain in the world, but do you know the tallest mountain in the ...

A perspective view of Marcia crater, Vesta. Marcia (70 km in diameter) is one of the youngest large craters on Vesta and host to the largest concentration of pits on the asteroid. On the left ...

Vesta's current position also puts it about ... one of the two heads of Gemini the Twins. Tycho is a prominent crater in the lunar south, made easy to spot by its broad, bright apron of ejecta ...

Spectroscopic observations with Dawn show that Vesta's crust consists of various types of rock. At the south pole, the collision with another asteroid has left a huge impact crater with a diameter of ...

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The following is a listing of all home transfers in the Portland metro area reported from Sept. 9 to Sept. 15. There were 575 ...

If a large asteroid hit the moon, it would make a sizeable crater and eject material from the surface, but that would be the extent of the damage, according to The Planetary Society. There are no ...

Your donation makes it possible for us to keep doing this important work, keeping you informed every step of the way to the November election Joël Lapointe discovered the likely crater with a ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an ...

A black bear was spotted going for a swim in Crater Lake last week, which is a rare sight at Oregon's national park, according to parks officials. "We could bear-ly believe it!" the park posted on ...