In 2020, scientists reported the detection of hematite, an iron oxide mineral otherwise known as rust, distributed through ...

For years, scientists have treated the Moon as a relic — a silent witness to the Solar System’s ancient past, geologically ...

Astronomers are considering blowing up the “city killer” asteroid, estimated to have a small chance of crashing onto the Moon ...

More such craters could be hiding in plain sight as they can quickly fill up with water and dirt, researchers say ...

Lunar minerals generate the rust mineral hematite when bombarded with high-energy oxygen particles, experiments show.

On the remote Yamal and Gydan peninsulas of western Siberia, the landscape is marked by massive craters that look as though ...

"The results reported here can be crucial when down-selecting which samples, if not all, are returned to Earth." ...