The record-breaking mission offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the geology of our planet’s largest layer.

The case for a newborn ocean on Saturn's moon Mimas continues to build.

When astronauts land near the moon's south pole as part of NASA's Artemis program in a few years, they likely will find ...

Cratons are thick and relatively cold, making them very durable during earth’s history. Continents, and their craton cores, ...

China announces that the Wangu gold deposit in Hunan could contain more than 1,000 tons of gold, according to initial ...

Artemis astronauts may walk across the Moon’s deepest story - rock blasted from a 4.3-billion-year-old impact that still ...

Venus is often called Earth's "sister planet" because of their similarities in size, mass, and composition. Both are rocky ...

Around 66 million years ago, the reign of the dinosaurs came to a fiery end. An asteroid about 7 miles (12 kilometers) wide, flying at 27,000 mph (43,000 km/h), slammed directly into Earth. The impact ...

The moon is sometimes called "two-faced" because the surface of its side perpetually facing away from Earth looks so ...

The air on Venus is about 96.5% carbon dioxide, a potent greenhouse gas. All that CO2 leads to a runaway greenhouse effect ...

The impact that carved out the South Pole-Aitken basin on the moon appears to have come from the north, not the south as ...