See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

A meteorite impact in Scotland happened 990 million years ago, not 1.2 billion as previously thought, possibly influencing ...

When 3 meteorite pieces struck Khalwat Nimgaon, it upended village life and set off a frantic hunt for a missing fragment.

The paper, "A one-billion-year-old Scottish meteorite impact," has been published in Geology. Previously believed to have ...

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We've discovered that a meteorite struck northwest Scotland 1 billion years ago, 200 million years later than previously ...

Geologists have found that an ancient meteorite hit Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought, which has massive implications for the geological history of the region and some of the U.

Though astronomers have known about the threat posed by near-Earth objects since the 1970s, efforts to catalogue potentially ...

By analyzing how far material ejected from an impact crater flies, scientists can locate buried glaciers and other ...

The work that we’re doing is really important because warning time is everything,” says Danica Remy of the B612 Foundation in ...

"We found that the momentum of the ensuing explosion is enough to eject the surrounding highly shocked rock material into space." ...