Scientists are investigating whether an asteroid impact could have triggered Earth’s first great flood, reshaping the planet’s surface billions of years ago. Evidence suggests that a massive space ...

There have been proposed hypotheses as to how the Moon could have developed a core dynamo. For instance, a 2022 analysis ...

Learn more about how this hydrothermal system may have provided life on Earth with vital nutrients after the dino-killing ...

If this event really did occur in the asteroid belt, we’d expect all inner solar system bodies to be affected. But there’s no evidence of an increased impact rate on Mars or the Moon from ...

“A large asteroid impact is potentially the only natural ... tragedy may be hard to coax from governments until convincing evidence of an impending threat is presented—an obvious issue ...

The presence of unique deformations in the deep-sea environment proves that it was carried to the water from land by a huge ...

"We found that the momentum of the ensuing explosion is enough to eject the surrounding highly shocked rock material into ...

The first evidence of this second asteroid was uncovered ... which the team suspected could be an asteroid impact crater. Now, the researchers have taken new high-resolution, 3D seismic images ...

Did a collision with a giant asteroid or comet change the shape ... Melted Rock These pieces of once-molten rock, called impact ejecta, are evidence of an explosion powerful enough to instantly ...

The impact released as much energy as 100 million ... But for decades, scientists have debated finer details: Was the impactor an asteroid instead of a comet—and if so, what type?