Since the Moon's formation, asteroid impacts have been the dominant exogenous geological process, creating craters and basins ...

A group of Chinese researchers revealed that the volatile loss from the lunar mantle was induced by the giant impact that ...

Researchers have also suggested that an asteroid impact triggered the moon’s lopsidedness. Now, lunar rock and soil samples ...

This suggests that when the South Pole-Aitken impactor hit, it gouged deep into the Moon, generating intense heat. This ...

At the end of Greenland 2, our heroes reach the crater and discover their theory was correct. The meteor crater has blossomed ...

Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.

Did mammoths, sabre-tooth tigers and other Ice Age megafauna face a similar, impact-induced fate to the dinosaurs? That’s ...

From orbit, Earth often looks more like art than geography. Satellites such as the European Union's Copernicus Sentinel ...

Satellites have captured amazing views views of these craters on Earth. ESA explains. Nördlinger Ries, Ouarkziz Crater, ...

Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology, explored ancient myths and folklore about creating automation, artificial ...

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Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major ...