For Asteroid Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Shoemaker Impact Structure (formerly known as Teague Ring) in Western Australia. Located around 100 km northeast of the small town ...

Images of 433 Eros taken from the orbiting NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft: (a), scale bar, lower right, measures 2 kilometers (1.2 miles), crater Shoemaker as viewed from the south; (b), scale bar 1 ...

Nearly half the largest rocks strewn across the asteroid 433 Eros come from material blasted from a single impact, a new analysis reveals. A detailed study of Eros-the first asteroid that a spacecraft ...

Detailed analysis of photographs of the asteroid 433 Eros indicate that most of the rubble on its surface came from a large crater, dubbed Shoemaker, on one end of the 21-mile long, potato-shaped rock ...

Satellites have captured amazing views views of these craters on Earth. ESA explains. Nördlinger Ries, Ouarkziz Crater, Tenoumer Crater, Gosses Bluff, Siljan Ring, Roter Kamm, Manicouagan Crater, ...

Like Einstein, Galileo, and Copernicus, former NASA program manager Craig Tooley now has a place on the Moon named in his honor. Tooley crater is a 7 km crater in a permanently shadowed region of ...