The asteroid that ended the age of dinosaurs erased nearly all traces of itself. It struck Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula 66 ...
Scientists identified the Chicxulub impactor as a rare CO chondrite, revealing its role in Earth's last mass extinction 66 million years ago.
A massive asteroid that broke apart around 800 million years ago may have sent a huge number of rocky fragments towards Earth ...
A Southwest Research Institute-led study has proposed a connection between a specific collision in the main asteroid belt and ...
"While the site had previously been identified as an ancient impact crater, its exact age remained uncertain." ...
A catastrophic asteroid breakup may have triggered a huge wave of impacts across the inner solar system about 800 million ...
OSIRIS-REx flew hundreds of millions of miles to do something NASA had never done: bring a piece of an asteroid home. The ...
Nearly 400 days and a billion kilometers after leaving Earth, China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft has arrived at its target: the ...