Earth is no stranger to mass extinction events – it’s had five so far, and some scientists have even claimed we’re in the ...

In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu ... body's interior melted the water ice about three million years ago. Over time, reactions between the water and rock ...

An asteroid caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. But it also enabled the first form of agriculture... long before the arrival of humans. 66 million years ago, ants began cultivating fungi, thereby ...

The most striking illustration of the destructive power of space rocks on Earth is the asteroid that wiped ... and animal species around 66 million years ago. However, scientists have recently ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

Their missions could help inform efforts to deflect an asteroid that threatens Earth, should we need to in future. Some 66 million years ago, an asteroid the size of a small city hit Earth.

A new study has suggested that ant agriculture arose about 66 million years ago, when Earth was struck by an asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. Ants started to cultivate fungi long ago, and this ...

New research led by entomologist Ted Schultz from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History traces this practice back 66 million years, right after the asteroid that wiped out the ...

the team found that many of those asteroids existed unified as a single asteroid 7.6 million years ago. Prior research had already applied the same time-rewinding technique to another asteroid ...

These families were produced by three recent collisions that occurred in the main asteroid belt 5.8, 7.5, and about 40 million years ago. The team also revealed the sources of other types of ...