NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered high-purity quartz crystals on Mars, a discovery that could reshape the search for ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

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

The extra column this month was spurred by the global news of the probability of an impact by asteroid 2024 YR4 in 2032 ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater in Western ...

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 resulting tsunami left "megaripples" of sediment 16 meters (53 feet) high and 600 ...

The 3.5 billion-year-old crater discovered in Australia may be the cradle of life. Earth's oldest-known crater discovered is ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found large crystals of quartz with a high purity on Mars, which probably had to have formed in the ...

Male blue-lined octopuses inject females with venom to paralyse them before mating and avoid being eaten after sex.

“On Earth, this early impact record has seemingly been lost, reflecting the destructive efficiency of erosion and subduction ...