Jun 28, 2024 · Meteorite impacts pepper Mars at a rate up to 10 times more frequent than previous estimates, according to two new research papers that identified the seismic shock …

Sep 19, 2022 · The first of the four confirmed meteoroids – the term used for space rocks before they hit the ground – made the most dramatic entrance: It entered Mars’ atmosphere on Sept. …

Oct 27, 2022 · Boulder-size blocks of water ice can be seen around the rim of an impact crater on Mars, as viewed by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE camera) aboard …

Dec 2, 2022 · Its large size suggests the cosmic impact that dug the hole itself was big, similar in scale to the one from a 6-mile-wide (10 km) asteroid that struck near what is now the town of …

2 days ago · Researchers have in the past taken images of new impact craters and found seismic data that matches the date and location of the craters’ formation. But the two new studies …

Jun 2, 2024 · Mars may face more than twice as many close encounters with potentially dangerous asteroids as Earth does, according to a new study. This could imperil exploratory …

22 hours ago · It’s closer to the asteroid belt and has a thinner atmosphere, so more space debris reaches its surface. Astronomers used AI to help identify thousands of impacts on Mars near …

Dec 6, 2022 · NASA’s Viking 1 lander may have touched down on the site of a massive megatsunami. Around 3.4 billion years ago, when Mars was a warm, wet world, an asteroid …

Mar 28, 2024 · Over two million years ago, a giant asteroid slammed into Mars, scarring the surface with one massive crater and around two billion smaller individual craters. These …

Feb 25, 2015 · A new study suggests that Mars was once hit by an asteroid so large that it melted nearly half of the planet’s surface.