Asteroid impacts are common across the solar system. Large craters cover many planets and moons, especially Mars. Scientists ...

Helium-3 dating reveals new plankton species emerged within thousands—and sometimes just 2,000—years after the dinosaur-killing impact, showing life recovered far faster than assumed.

Can life transport between planets from impacts? This is what a recent study published in PNAS Nexus hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated | Space ...

A sediment-washing “bubbler” helped researchers recover 65.5-million-year-old teeth that illuminate how early primate ...

Johns Hopkins scientists have shown that Deinococcus radiodurans bacteria can survive the massive pressures of an asteroid ...

A famously resilient bacterium may be tough enough to survive one of the most violent events imaginable on Mars. In ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...

In Madison and nearby southeast Missouri counties, William Jud, a Fredericktown geologist, may have identified a buried ...

For the first time ever, scientists have uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil — mysterious glassy fragments forged when a powerful extraterrestrial object slammed into Earth about 6.3 million ...

The massive crater is the focus of a week-long discovery event, offering unique tours, stargazing and lectures.

UW astronomers published findings Jan. 7 showing they discovered the fastest-spinning subkilometer asteroid known to date using data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The observatory captured 2,000 ...

Courtesy of NASA Hubbel Space Telescope via Unslpash. New asteroid data reveal amino acids can form under conditions previously considered unviable. Research finds life’s building blocks created in ...