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

The study gives new insight into how Komodo dragons keep their teeth razor-sharp and may provide clues to how dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex killed ... Scientists Assess How Large Dinosaurs ...

Note: partially time-lapse video] On September 16, 2024, at 13:32 local time, Japan's Sakurajima volcano, one of the most ...

According to a study published in the Journal of Geomorphology, global warming is the cause of the enlargement of the Batagaika crater in Siberia. Also known as the "gate to hell", this crater ...

Asteroid hunter Jacqueline Fazekas started the evening of Sept. 4, 2024, much like she spends half of every lunar month: ...

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

New evidence supports the hypothesis that a fragmented comet triggered a dramatic climate change 12,800 years ago, with ...

Billions of years ago, a massive asteroid struck Ganymede, the largest moon orbiting Jupiter, shifting it on its axis, new ...

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

One researcher thinks the asteroid, which is thought to have hit Ganymede 4 billion years ago, was 20 times larger than the ...

and led to the downfall of dinosaurs on Earth 66 million years ago. The crater left behind on Ganymede was 25% the size of the Jupiter moon, according to the study. It’s still unclear how much ...

The asteroid was 20 times larger than the one that collided with what’s now the Yucatán Peninsula in Chicxulub, Mexico, and ...