A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

An ancient impact structure in remote northern Australia was recently spotted by one of NASA's Earth-observing satellite ...

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

It may have weighed up to 180,800 pounds (82,000 kilograms). An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. The crash left a giant ...

In 2021, a team led by Dr Gary Kinsland of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette found evidence that the impact and ...

It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Brown University scientists are receiving some sweet recognition after positively identifying a meteorite that shattered a car window and landed in a carton of ice ...

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Long before the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs crashed to Earth ... discovered that what is now considered the oldest impact crater on Earth is nearly 3.5 billion years old.