Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

Planetary scientists have published a detailed follow-up on the debris from their historic 2022 asteroid impact experiment in outer space. What they found challenges their understanding of the ...

Giant-impact driven redox processes in the atmosphere and magma ocean may have played crucial roles during the evolution of the Earth. However, the absence of rock records from the time or era makes ...

ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – A comet spanning roughly 2,000 feet landing in the heart of St. Louis could cause a crater nearly 4 miles wide and an earthquake felt as far as 116 miles away, according to an ...

A recent study scheduled to be presented at the Geological Society of America’s GSA Connects 2023 meeting examines the possibility of the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest planetary object that resides ...

(Nanowerk News) One of the most exciting findings from NASA’s Dawn mission is that Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt that lies between Mars and Jupiter, hosts complex organics. The ...