The first few billion years of Earth's history saw the rise of life, the atmosphere and the oceans. Still, that time is ...

The asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs also created an underground environment suited to supporting new ...

Drill cores at the impact site of the Chicxulub asteroid show evidence that, alongside widespread destruction, the collision ...

A team of international researchers has uncovered new evidence that the Chicxulub meteorite impact, ...

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See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

Scientists studied ancient fungal spores and discovered Earth may already have been under stress before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

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Russian authorities claim to have found the impact sites of some of the fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteor, according to the RIA Novosti news agency. Two have been found near Chebarkul Lake—one of ...

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