Mimas, one of the smaller round moons of Saturn, sports Herschel crater, one of the larger impact craters in the entire Solar System. The robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn took the above image of Herschel crater in unprecedented detail ...

This past November, the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey near Tucson, Arizona discovered an asteroid receding from the Earth, heading towards Mars with. Astronomers estimate there is a one in 25 (four percent) chance of that this asteroid will directly hit ...

Last Thursday, September 20th, 2007 the occupants of a small isolated village in southern Peru, not far from the Bolivian border, reported hearing a loud explosion. The locals rushed in the direction of the sound and found that a large ...