Morookian is one of two dozen employees at the lab who drive Perseverance, a $2 billion, six-wheeled NASA robot exploring a distant planet covered in rocks, boulders, sand dunes and craters.

Athena’s face plant was Intuitive Machine’s second ... from its target location on Mons Mouton, inside a crater. A transmitted image showed the craft lying on its side, partly in shadow ...

The impact crater could be linked to the origins of life on Earth. The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way ...

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 ...

but the cold wind on my face kept me going,” he wrote. Upon reaching the summit in complete darkness, his guide informed him that they needed to descend into the crater before dawn to witness ...

A dramatic photograph from Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander shows it touched down Thursday in a crater near the lunar south pole and tipped over on its side. Given a low sun angle and the ...

Crater 'significantly challenged previous assumptions about our planet's ancient history' A giant crater 2km across and 170m deep, formed by a meteorite, is the location of India's Lonar Lake ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — (AP) — A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon's south pole and its mission is over, officials said Friday.

Geologists have discovered the world's oldest known impact crater; it sits in the heart of Western Australia's ancient Pilbara region. An analysis of rock layers in the region suggests a crater at ...

The authors say findings could provide a new line of study into Earth's history and the early origins of life on the planet. What could be the world's oldest-known impact crater has been ...