Researchers discovered a 3.26-billion-year-old asteroid impact acted as 'giant fertilizer bomb,' aiding early microbial life.

A colossal asteroid named 2023 WK3 is making a close approach to Earth on November 18, 2024. Measuring between 200 and 460 ...

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Humanity is better prepared than ever before to prevent a large asteroid from crashing into Earth, but there's more work, and ...

The team's hypothesis calls for a temporary ring around Earth, which would explain why impacts were constrained to a ...

Ever since the invention of the telescope, humans have looked to the planet Saturn in awe of its magnificent system of rings. Passing probes later discovered rings around the other gas giants: Jupiter ...

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Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

(Reuters) – Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur – an ancient flying reptile – with a wing span of about 7 feet (2 meters), a bony crest on front of its snout ...

Research supports the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis, suggesting a comet fragment caused significant climatic changes and ...

For perspective, at its maximum estimated size of 460 meters, 2023 WK3 dwarfs India’s iconic Qutub Minar, which stands at 73 meters tall. The asteroid is over six times taller than this UNESCO World ...