Mercury, the innermost planet of our Solar System is a grey, barren world to our human eyes. In stark contrast, this map shows a portion of the surface in a patchwork of colour, each shade ...

Learn more about the bizarre geological features found throughout our Solar System. From Madagascar’s “forest of knives” to the interlocking basalt columns of the Giant’s Causeway, Earth is replete ...

Scientists at the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute (PSI) have found further evidence for the large role that water has likely played in shaping the Martian landscape. Their results, which will ...

Eugene Shoemaker with some of the first geologic maps of the Moon, Flagstaff AZ, mid-1960's Many people are surprised when they learn that well before the first landing of Apollo in 1969, we already ...

Spider Butte and the Canyon de Chelly National Monument ("Tsèyi'" in Navajo) in Arizona is located on Navajo Nation land. Surface missions assign nicknames to landmarks to provide the mission’s team ...

Environmental scientists see flora, fauna and phenomena the rest of us rarely do. In this series, we’ve invited them to share their unique photos from the field. There’s something to be said for a job ...

Various geological features on the surface of Toutatis. (a) Craters (blue circles),boulders (red squares), lineaments (green lines) as well as the flow direction of regolith (blackarrows) are outlined ...