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NASA's Mars rover finds out-of-place 'skull' rock in Jezero crater
Apr 23, 2025Scientists have been unable to determine where the rock came from or how it got to this location.
Has Perseverance already scooped up evidence of life on Mars ?
Jan 29, 2024Samples collected from Jezero crater may contain fossil evidence of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet.
Mystery 'undisclosed' payload involved in rocket's double-crater crash
Nov 23, 2023A new study has concluded that a Chinese rocket that crashed into the Moon in 2022 was carrying a mystery payload.
NASA's Mars rover photographs rock shaped like an avocado
Sep 17, 2023The rather unusual object was captured on camera in Jezero Crater by the Perseverance rover earlier this month.
Rover finds organic molecules on the surface of Mars
VIDEO Dec 17, 2021NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered organic compounds in rocks and dust on the floor of Jezero Crater.
Art project is creating 'alien-human hybrids'
Sep 30, 2021A very unusual art experiment in the Italian village of Fontecchio is turning its residents into alien hybrids.
Giant hole opens up in Siberian permafrost
VIDEO Sep 4, 2020A phenomenon that made headlines back in 2014 has resurfaced in the form of a new 164-foot crater in Siberia.
Mystery 'gel' found on far side of the Moon
Sep 3, 2019Scientists operating China's Yutu-2 lunar rover have discovered a strange 'shiny gel' inside an impact crater.
Unusual new impact crater discovered on Mars
VIDEO Jun 18, 2019Photographed by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the crater is unlike anything scientists have seen before.
Large unknown mass discovered on the Moon
Jun 11, 2019Scientists have identified a large, anomalous mass embedded deep beneath the Moon's largest crater.
Japanese probe detonates 'bomb' on asteroid
VIDEO Apr 7, 2019The Japanese Hayabusa-2 spacecraft has detonated an explosive charge on the surface of the asteroid Ryugu.
Mystery of black rock found in crater solved
Jan 19, 2019Nora and Jean Muchanic had been walking on a New Jersey beach when they came upon something unusual.
Stunning image shows ice-filled crater on Mars
Dec 21, 2018This recently released photograph shows the 60km-wide Korolev Crater in Mars' north polar region.
Huge impact crater discovered in Greenland
VIDEO Nov 15, 2018For the first time ever, scientists have found an impact crater beneath one of the Earth's continental ice sheets.
Extinction asteroid hit 'worst possible place'
VIDEO May 15, 2017Scientists have been drilling in to the crater left behind by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Fresh doubts cast on Tunguska impact theory
Jan 21, 2017Russian scientists have found evidence to suggest that the impact crater may predate the event itself.
Antarctic anomaly mystery resurfaces again
Dec 29, 2016A peculiar 151-mile-wide anomaly is believed to lie beneath a region of Antarctica known as Wilkes Land.
Strange 'crater' discovered in Antarctica
Dec 13, 2016A large hole in the King Baudoin ice shelf has challenged what we know of the East Antarctic ice sheet.
Further evidence found of ocean on Pluto
VIDEO Nov 17, 2016It is looking increasingly likely that the dwarf planet is home to a vast subterranean ocean of water.
Mystery surrounds missing craters on Ceres
Jul 26, 2016Scientists have been attempting to determine why the dwarf planet Ceres has no large craters at all.
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