Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light ...

The Chicxulab asteroid, which smashed into the Gulf of Mexico 65 million years ago with devastating results, put paid to the dominance of the dinosaurs - although by that time some had already ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

In other words, Bennu's samples provide further evidence that life's building blocks formed early in the solar system and ...

A recent study published on August 16 has traced the origin of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, indicating that it came from beyond Jupiter in our solar system.

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an ...

Did a collision with a giant asteroid or comet change the shape ... struck just off the coast of the Yucatan peninsula 65 million years ago. According to scientists who maintain that dinosaur ...

The Nadir crater was created by an asteroid that struck Earth at nearly 72,000 kilometres per hour between 65 million and 67 million years ago. Although smaller than the asteroid associated with ...