A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

In 2021, a team led by Dr Gary Kinsland of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette found evidence that the impact and resulting tsunami left "megaripples" of sediment 16 meters (53 feet) high and 600 ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

“The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie” surprised me. I expected yet another big screen misuse of the animated ...

If venusian clouds contain life, it will be very different than what we know. But terrestrial analogs might still give us ...

Scientists believe a newly-discovered crater believed to be the oldest in the world reveals a number of clues to the early ...

The world's oldest known impact crater has been identified at a site in the Pilbara, which is a part of Western Australia...

The find could hold implications for understanding the origin of life here on Earth.

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Scientists with a new theory about how Earth’s early continents formed predicted where a superold impact crater should ...