The asteroid impact in Mexico left deposits similar to those made by other asteroids from the outer solar system.

New simulations show that Jupiter's massive moon Ganymede was knocked off its axis when it was struck by a roughly ...

A camper scrolling through Google Maps has stumbled upon what could be a crater caused by a giant asteroid impact in Canada. Joël Lapointe discovered the likely crater with a spherical pit of about ...

Sixty-six million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid struck Earth off the coast of Mexico, leaving a 150km-wide crater and wiping out 60% of all species, including the dinosaurs. Scientists now ...

A colossal asteroid impact on the Jupiter moon Ganymede not only reshaped its physical landscape but may have also altered ...

Earth sciences professor at Western University Dr Gordon Osinski told CBC that circular structures are often spotted on Google Earth or Google Maps, but nine times out of ten they turn out to be ...

About 66 million years ago, a city-sized asteroid struck Earth, creating a 100-mile-wide crater in Mexico and causing the ...

Hera and its two cubesats arrived at their launch site in Florida in early September following a transatlantic flight from Germany, with a stop in Ireland. The mission's launch window opens on Oct. 7 ...

A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is monitoring a large asteroid called Apophis that is expected to come very ...

Based on the size of the crater, Hirata estimates the asteroid responsible for birthing ... including all non-avian dinosaurs. Some media outlets have quoted a Kobe University news release ...

A crater found in Canada is thought to have ... air – such as the meteor that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs, or the asteroid that hit the Earth in 2013 and injured over 1,600 people ...