A menacing asteroid, some six miles wide, triggered Earth's last mass extinction. Now, scientists have found where it originated. It was "a projectile originating at the outskirts of the solar system ...
An illustration of a large asteroid colliding with Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula in what is modern-day Mexico. The asteroid responsible for our last mass extinction 66 million years ago — wiping out ...
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Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the Earth, blasted debris everywhere, plummeted the planet into cold darkness, and ended the age of dinosaurs. (Though birds survived, of course.) ...
An asteroid more than six miles in diameter slammed into what is today Mexico READ MORE: Enjoy a glass of wine? Thank the extinction of the dinosaurs! It is well known that the reign of the dinosaurs ...
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Unexpected mineral in a Ryugu grain challenges paradigm of the nature of primitive asteroids
The pristine samples from asteroid Ryugu returned by the Hayabusa2 mission on December 6, 2020, have been vital to improving the understanding of primitive asteroids and the formation of the solar ...
The asteroid Ryugu may look like a solid piece of rock, but it’s more accurate to liken it to an orbiting pile of rubble. Given the relative fragility of this collection of loosely bound boulders, ...
Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...
Just over 12 months ago, we were sitting at Woomera, in the Australian outback, waiting for a streak of light in the sky to testify that the Hayabusa2 spacecraft had returned from its voyage to ...
An overview of the processes that led to the formation and evolution of current day Ryugu. (Credit: Nakamura, E. et al., 2022, On the origin and evolution of the asteroid Ryugu: A comprehensive ...
The asteroid responsible for our last mass extinction 66 million years ago — wiping out the dinosaurs — originated from the far reaches of our solar system, unlike most asteroids that have struck ...
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