Meteor impact in Canada may have triggered the Big Freeze that caused mass extinction and forced humans into agriculture
The high temperatures of the meteorite impact 12,900 years ago produced mm-sized spherules of melted glass ...
The high temperatures of the meteorite impact 12,900 years ago produced mm-sized spherules of melted glass ...
The current leading theory that explains the mass extinction of the dinosaurs - once the dominant group of animals on ...
This month the PAN-STARSS comet can be seen at its brightest, a truly rare event that can be witnessed in ...
Photograph of Comet West, one of the greatest comets of all-time, taken by an amateur astronomer. ...
Discovered just last week by a Russian team at the International Scientific Optical Network (ISON), the comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) ...
A moonless night might offer the best setting for the best view of the upcoming Lyrid meteor shower in years ...
A recently published study suggests that the Earth might have been visited by a giant space rock 13,000 years ago, ...
NASA has developed a harpoon that would make even the most pretentious pirate jealous: it can latch on to comets ...
Black holes are perhaps the most fascinating and staggering objects in the known Universe, and we are just now beginning ...
I was lucky enough this weekend to be away from the city and at an altitude of about 1800m, deep ...
In a relevant display of NASA's fireball-observing network capabilities, a set of automatic robotic cameras caught a man-sized meteor as ...
Every once in a while, the Sun gets a little hungry; in those times, it grabs on a little comet ...
After six years of loneliness, this Valentine's day was the charm for one of the veteran comet-chasing spacecrafts. As Stardust ...
In 2004, NASA researchers identified the Apophis asteroid and after some quick calculations they states there is a chance the ...
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