On Sunday November 2, people in eastern Victoria witnessed a bright streak across the sky followed by a loud sonic boom that ...

A panoramic aerial drone image of the Jinlin crater with the approximate location of the crater rim labeled, with an insert ...

Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals ...

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Researchers discovered that living horsetails act like natural distillation towers, producing bizarre oxygen isotope ...

A mong the hilly forests of southern China, scientists have discovered the largest modern meteorite impact crater on Earth.

Akira Miyake/Kyoto University Given that our species has only existed for a tiny fraction of the lifespan of our solar system ...

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Thousands of years ago, a space rock hit what is now China, leaving a bowl-shaped crater some 900 meters wide ...

Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds.