One idea for central pit formation is that ... surface is excavated forming an explosive pit surrounded by rocky debris. The pit is in the centre of the main crater, where most of the impact ...

Tokyo -- Japan's space agency said an explosive dropped Friday from its Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully blasted the surface of an asteroid for the first time to form a crater and pave the way ...

In the first week of April, a Japanese spacecraft blasted a small crater into an asteroid more than 180 million miles from Earth — and now we’ve finally got the first images of its explosive ...

Reporting from Tokyo — Japan’s space agency said an explosive dropped Friday from its Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully blasted the surface of an asteroid for the first time to form a crater ...

Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully created a crater in the asteroid by shooting the “small carry-on impactor” in hopes of learning more about the solar system.

The iron mass that smashed into Arizona some 49,000 years ago to create Meteor Crater was just the crumbled remains of a far larger rock body. What is more, this shower of debris was moving much ...

An eruption at Mount Spurr’s Crater Peak side vent is expected to be explosive, sending ash plumes ... A volcano is a geological formation where magma, gas, and ash erupt from beneath the ...

TOKYO – Japan's space agency says its Hayabusa2 spacecraft has released an explosive onto an asteroid to make a crater on its surface and collect underground samples to find possible clues to ...

This image released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows an explosive dropped from Hayabusa2 spacecraft to make a crater on the asteroid Ryugu Friday, April 5, 2019. Japan's ...

TOKYO — Japan’s space agency said an explosive dropped Friday from its Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully blasted the surface of an asteroid for the first time to form a crater and pave the way ...