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This is such a blast!
A fresh crater in the Arabia Terra region of Mars photographed by the Mars Global Surveyor. The impact occurred sometime between December 8, 2003 and November 26, 2005. The dark rings and rays around...
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Mars gives birth to twins and triplets
The 27.5-hour-old crescent floats on its side in the western sky last night around 6:30 p.m. The faint outline of the earthlit moon is also visible. Details: 200mm lens at f/2.8, ISO 800 and 1/50"...
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See Neil Armstrong’s crater on the moon
A closeup view from orbit shows the pair of 18.5 mile-diameter craters Ritter and Sabine which are easily visible in a small telescope. They’ll help to guide you to the three smaller craters named...
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Imagine a crater named John Lennon – it’s easy if you try
The 59-mile-wide John Lennon crater on Mercury photographed by the orbiting MESSENGER spacecraft. Click to enlarge. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/Carnegie Institution of Washington The International Astronomical...
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Dramatic new crater appears on Mars
Looks like a bomb went off. A dramatic, fresh impact crater dominates this image taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Nov....
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Forbidding Planet: Scientists find remains of monster asteroid impacts on...
Artist’s view of Earth several billion years ago during the Late Heavy Bombardment, when the planet is thought to have been battered by impacts of comets and asteroids. Credit: Chris Butler/SPL Earth...
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Mars got a black eye this March
A large, fresh crater on Mars resulting from an impact sometime on March 27-28 this year. The main crater’s 159 by 143 feet (49-meter diameter). It’s surrounded by secondary craters (circled) probably...
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Giant cave found on Mars
A beautifully conical crater pit divots the flank of ancient volcano Pavonis Mons on Mars. This digital terrain model is color coded for elevation with red for higher terrain and blue lower. Click to...
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Come fly with me to Mercury
MESSENGER flies over Mercury. The spacecraft blasted off from Cape Canaveral on August 3, 2004. To commemorate this week’s 10th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft to Mercury,...
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Asteroid 2014 RC makes astronomers’ heads spin / Crater appears in Nicaragua
Multiple images of asteroid 2014 RC made with the Lowell Observatory 42-inch Hall telescope showing its motion on September 7, 2014. Not only did it make a very close approach to Earth yesterday, but...
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Happy nights adrift on the Moon’s Sea of Showers
Over 700 miles across, Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) is the largest lunar sea. Its roughly circular shape is defined by a series of mountains ranges just coming into good view tonight and the next few...
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Mars gets a new crater, smiles for the camera
This new crater excavated by an impacting meteorite on Mars shows a striking pattern of ejecta – rocks and other debris blasted off the surface during the impact. The shape of the ejecta indicate that...
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See Dazzling Aristarchus, The Moon’s ‘Searchlight’
This simulation shows how the moon will look tonight (March 10) when Aristarchus comes into view along its upper left (northeastern) edge. The crater is located not far from the terminator, the border...
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What Do Moon And Earth Have In Common? Big Craters!
The waxing gibbous moon sails above Mars on Weds. evening. Tonight, you’ll find it further off to the right (west) of the Red Planet. Stellarium Last night the moon shone to the left of Saturn....
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Get An Eyeful Of Copernicus, The Moon’s Most Magnificent Pothole
Copernicus is a standout crater on tonight’s 9-day-old moon — big enough to easily spot in binoculars and stunning in a small telescope. The crater was named for Polish astronomer Nicolas Copernicus,...
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7 Nights With The Moon — An Easy Guide
The scene this evening facing west from twilight till about 10 o’clock local time. Both Mars and Aldebaran in Taurus are about the same hue, but the star is more than half a magnitude brighter....
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Corvus Will Give You Something To Crow About
Jimmy the raven in the Building and Loan office in It’s a Wonderful Life. Public domain Crows and ravens get a bad rap. In movies they’re often associated with doom, death and evil. Is it the...
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