A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

An ancient impact structure in remote northern Australia was recently spotted by one of NASA's Earth-observing satellite ...

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a ...

While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...

In 2021, a team led by Dr Gary Kinsland of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette found evidence that the impact and ...

It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity — or not.