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

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 ...

Researchers from the Field Museum, Chicago have found that an ancient bird with a mouthful of super-strong teeth did not live ...

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 ...

Now, new research has dug up an even more calamitous collision in our solar system’s distant past: An asteroid 20 times the ...

A new study adds strong evidence to the hypothesis that the deadly rock known as the Chicxulub impactor came from a family of objects that originally formed well beyond the orbit of the planet Jupiter ...