Earliest evidence of a meteorite hitting Earth found in Australia
15 March 2023
Tiny pieces of stone found in a rock formation in Western Australia may be the oldest evidence of a meteorite impact on Earth, dating back nearly 3.5 billion years
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Found 17 results for asteroid
A second asteroid may have struck Earth when the dinosaurs died out
17 August 2022
A possible impact crater under the sea off West Africa might have been made by a smaller piece that broke off the asteroid that wiped out most dinosaurs
Reclassification of Earth's minerals reveals 4000 more than we thought
1 July 2022
Some scientists suggest minerals should be reorganised by the methods that make them, which would increase the known number of minerals on Earth by 75 per cent
Geologists to pinpoint official birthplace of the Anthropocene in 2022
25 January 2022
Whether we are in a new geological epoch is still up for debate, but geologists have almost decided where on Earth should be the official birthplace of the Anthropocene
Don’t Look Up review: The funniest climate change movie so far
13 December 2021
Netflix disaster-satire film Don’t Look Up is a cathartic and hilarious allegory of humanity's hapless efforts to deal with climate change.
Mysterious origin of Earth's water may be explained by solar wind
29 November 2021
Evidence from asteroids shows that charged particles from the sun can turn dust grains into water – a process that could be useful for space exploration too
Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs gave birth to the Amazon rainforest
1 April 2021
The asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago eliminated plant-trampling dinosaurs and rained fertilising ash on South America's rainforests, letting flowering plants take over what used to be mostly coniferous forests
Moon craters hint huge asteroids bombarded Earth 800 million years ago
21 July 2020
Craters on the moon show it was probably bombarded with asteroids about 800 million years ago, which also rained down on Earth and could have plunged the planet into an ice age
Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs hit just right for maximum damage
26 May 2020
The asteroid impact that formed Chicxulub crater and is linked to the extinction of the dinosaurs seems to have come in at the optimal angle to cause as much destruction as possible
Dinosaur extinction lines up closely with timing of volcanic eruptions
21 February 2019
Many people assume an asteroid triggered the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs, but geologists say massive volcanic eruptions occurred at the same time
