Several thousand light years from now, when the Earth lies barren amid post-apocalyptic nuclear fallout, an alien race will ...

A ring system may explain evidence of impacts in the geological record, but it may have also impacted the evolution of life ...

The results of his study suggest that an object as small as 0.6 meters across could potentially nudge the asteroid onto a ...

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

Earth sciences professor at Western University Dr Gordon Osinski told CBC that circular structures are often spotted on ...

This claustrophobia-inducing image is taken from photographer Martin Broen's new book Light in the Underworld, a collection ...

The deposits left by the asteroid impact at Chicxulub, Mexico, are similar to other asteroids from the outer solar system.

Billions of years ago, a massive asteroid struck Ganymede, the largest moon orbiting Jupiter, shifting it on its axis, new ...

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

More than 700 million years ago, the Earth was plunged into a state that geologists call "snowball Earth", when our planet ...

Several lines of evidence show that the snowball Earth happened, but scientists have previously lacked rocks showing the ...