Impacts
A Hypervelocity Experiment Mimics the Surface Conditions of Ceres
It might be oxymoronic to say that the more we find out about something, the more mysterious it becomes. But…
Impacts From Interstellar Objects Should Leave Very Distinct Craters
In a recent study submitted to Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, a team of researchers from Yale University investigated how to…
A Chunk of Space Junk Just Hit the Far Side of the Moon
Observers have been tracking a chunk of space junk, waiting for it to strike the Moon. It should've hit the…
It’s Been Constantly Raining Meteors on Mars for 600 Million Years. Earth too.
New research shows that Mars has faced a constant rain of meteors during the last 600 million years. This finding…
NASA’s New Asteroid Impact Monitoring System Comes Online
An asteroid striking Earth is a genuine possibility. There are tens of thousands of asteroids classified as Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs),…
Did Asteroid Impacts Provide Both the Heat and Raw Ingredients to Enable Life?
This is our Great Question: How did life begin on Earth? Anyone who says they have the answer is telling…
There’s a Vast Microbial Ecosystem Underneath the Crater that Wiped Out the Dinosaurs
How did life arise on Earth? How did it survive the Hadean eon, a time when repeated massive impacts excavated…
Giant Meteor Impacts Might Have Triggered Early Earth’s Plate Tectonics
A new study by an Australian-US team has found that a large impact that happened ca. 3.2 billion years ago…
Fossilized Clams Had Evidence of a Meteorite Impact Inside Them
When an extraterrestrial object slams into the Earth, it sends molten rock high into the atmosphere. That debris cools and…
Here’s What it Looks Like When a Refrigerator Hits the Moon
Ever wonder what your refrigerator's impacting at the speed of a tank artillery shell would do to the Moon? The…