asteroid

Massive asteroid impacts did not change Earth’s climate in the long term

Two massive asteroids hit Earth around 35.65 million years ago, but did not lead to any lasting changes in the…

3 weeks ago

Gigantic asteroid impact shifted the axis of Solar System’s biggest moon

Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a Kobe University researcher realized that the…

4 months ago

James Webb Space Telescope Discoveries Challenge Theories About Asteroid Psyche’s Origin

Recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have cast doubt on the long-held belief that asteroid 16 Psyche…

4 months ago

Tracking down the asteroid that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs

Geoscientists from the University of Cologne have led an international study to determine the origin of the huge piece of…

4 months ago

Asteroid That Triggered Dinosaur Extinction Was a Carbon-Rich C-Type Space Rock, Study Finds

Recent research has provided new insights into the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago, causing a mass extinction…

4 months ago

Records of cometary dust hitting the asteroid Ryugu

Ryugu is a near-Earth asteroid that gained significant attention when the Japanese Hayabusa2 mission collected samples and returned them to…

11 months ago

Limitations of asteroid crater lakes as climate archives

In southern Germany just north of the Danube, there lies a large circular depression between the hilly surroundings: the Nördlinger…

1 year ago

NASA Astronomers Predict Near-Earth Asteroid’s 2029 Close Encounter

About 5 and a 1/2 years from now, astronomers predict, an asteroid about as wide as the Empire State Building…

1 year ago