Scientists predict that the asteroid Apophis may undergo significant surface changes when it makes its close approach to ...

D: Iron in the ocean (from the ocean circulation, from the impactor itself, and from erosion), along with nutrients (like ...

Geologists suggest the catastrophic impact of "S2" delivered key nutrients to the oceans, prompting microorganisms to thrive ...

The meteorite itself, referred to as S2 in Drabon’s study, was between 37 and 58 km wide, according to the study. Alec R.

Three spectrometers on the spacecraft would use electromagnetic radiation coming from the asteroid to map out its mineral makeup. Meteor Impact Sites in the ... Conversely, Nightingale was a fresher ...

On a large asteroid named Vesta, mysteriously curved gullies and fan-shaped deposits may have formed from short-lived flows ...

Further study, together with the magnetic and gravity data, confirmed the site as an impact event, named for the nearby ...

Recently, scientists ventured to the impact crater in South Africa's Barberton Greenstone belt, created by the meteorite, to ...

Harvard researchers found that when a meteorite nicknamed S2 paid a visit to our planet 3 billion years ago, it may have helped life flourish.

A giant meteorite, the size of four Mount Everests, is thought to have crashed into Earth around 3.26 billion years ago and ...

I asked Douglas Netherland at the Meteor Crater Museum, west of Odessa, to explain the difference between a meteor and a ...

This meteorite was far larger than the infamous Cretaceous era ending one. ‘We’re looking at a bolide that was 500 to 200 ...