As astronauts prepare for south-polar landings, a new look at the Moon’s biggest crater points to a pivotal moment in lunar history—and to the rocks you’ll want sampled next. The New York Times Hits ...

Some 200km to the south of Pilansberg lies a very different kind of crater: the Vredefort structure with mountain rings and a circular core known as the Dome. It is a Unesco World Heritage Site, ...

A new study reveals the likely origin of a mysterious spider-like pattern first spotted on Jupiter's moon Europa in 1998. The ...

Cosmic “touchdown airbursts” — explosions of comets or asteroids above Earth’s surface — may be far more common and ...

The Ramsar Site (a wetland of international importance), about 460 km from Mumbai, is home to several temples, some dating back over 1,200 years. However, many of them, including the famous Kamalja ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped vast, continent-scale river drainage systems on Mars — ancient networks that may ...

Temples in Lonar Lake are getting submerged and it is a cause of concern. The IIT Bombay has been roped in to study causes ...

NASA's Webb space telescope (Hubble's successor) and Mars rover Curiosity have been included in Time magazine's list of the ...

NASA has just revealed enormous cracks, or grabens, on the Moon that show how the Mare Humorum fractured billions of years ...

A new study of the data sent back by the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn points to the moon Titan not having a global water ...