Asteroid 3200 Phaethon is a special space rock with a ... to temperatures of up to 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit (800 degrees Celsius), which is "so hot that metals on the surface turn to goo," he ...

On January 1, 2019 NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft provided humanity its first up-close look at an object from the solar system’s beginnings: the primordial Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth.

After initially arriving at the space rock known as Bennu in early December ... the photos give us an even better look at the debris-littered surface of Bennu. Don't Miss: Today’s deals ...

Therefore, it is no surprise that this little red rock continues to intrigue ... The Viking landers took the first close-up pictures of the Martian surface but found no strong evidence for life.

The lanai and pool area has a river-rock surface. The area is more than 400 ... The cost to add this feature would be from $500 and up depending on the complexity of the job, Caruso adds.

The image was blurry, but it was unmistakable: The object looked like a cube sitting on the moon’s surface ... of a lunar crater. Close up, it turns out to be just a rock.

The rover used one of its cameras to snap a photo of the dark, angular rock, which stands out so sharply ... like impacts or ancient flows. Its surface features several pits and possibly embedded ...

In the Wasatch mountains near Salt Lake City, Utah, a popular hiking trail winds up ... rock glaciers, says Hotaling. “Rock glaciers are vastly understudied relative to their charismatic surface ...

"It is the coal in the furnace that's heating things up," Peter Larson ... how heat is transferred to the Earth's surface by molten rock.