Billions of years ago, a giant asteroid struck the moon with so much energy that it melted rock until it was super-heated and white-hot, or what scientists call impact melt. This eventually cooled and ...
A colossal asteroid named 2023 WK3 is making a close approach to Earth on November 18, 2024.
Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...
(Reuters) – Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur – an ancient flying reptile – with a wing span of about 7 feet (2 meters), a bony crest on front of its snout ...
Approximately 66 million years ago our planet was rocked by an asteroid roughly six miles wide. The impact and its ensuing ...
Research supports the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis, suggesting a comet fragment caused significant climatic changes and ...
For perspective, at its maximum estimated size of 460 meters, 2023 WK3 dwarfs India’s iconic Qutub Minar, which stands at 73 meters tall. The asteroid is over six times taller than this UNESCO World ...
NASA has raised a red alert for asteroid 2023 WK3, a massive space rock the size of a football stadium. Measuring 850 feet in diameter, it is travelling at an astonishing speed of 52,117 km/h. The ...
Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...
A mini moon that will bid farewell to Earth soon may in fact be a small hunk of the big moon — the one that has loomed far ...
Europe's Hera asteroid probe will use the Red Planet for a gravity assist on its way to scope out the space rock crash site of NASA's DART impactor.