New research challenges what we know of our planet’s ancient past, suggesting that a ring formed around the Earth around 466 ...

Asteroid hunter Jacqueline Fazekas started the evening of Sept. 4, 2024, much like she spends half of every lunar month: ...

New simulations show that Jupiter's massive moon Ganymede was knocked off its axis when it was struck by a roughly ...

Last year, an immense but brief outburst of seismic energy was soon followed by a long hum that made the world ring. Finding ...

The asteroid impact in Mexico left deposits similar to those made by other asteroids from the outer solar system.

The space rock that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was a rare strike from an asteroid beyond Jupiter, a new study details. The finding pins down the nature of the fateful space rock ...

A new study revealed that a massive asteroid may have hit Jupiter’s moon Ganymede about 4 billion years ago, shifting the ...

The Chicxulub impactor, as it is called, was somewhere between 10 and 15 kilometres in diameter. The collision was devastating: rocks from deep within Earth’s crust were raised 25 kilometres ...

Scientists have found an extraordinary snapshot of the fallout from the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Excavations in North Dakota reveal fossils of fish and ...

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The findings published in Science on Thursday say that the researchers made their determination after examining the geological remains of the impact in modern day Chicxulub, Mexico. The team ...

Around 66 million years ago, a rock over 6 miles wide collided with Earth, triggering the mass extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs and leaving a giant impact crater off the coast of Mexico ...