Asteroid impact

Impact structure in Amelia Crater, Australia. Credit: NASA

600 million years ago, an asteroid impact shook the Earth – and its effects may still linger

How an ancient impact on Australia may have triggered global changes in climate and ocean chemistry
Doomsday asteroid. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Can we discover doomsday asteroids in time?

Today there is only one system in the world focused on this activity - NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar, part of the Deep Space Network (DSN). But an idea of ​​a new instrument from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Imaging of the Osiris-Rex probe collecting a sample from the Bennu asteroid. Source: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab.

A seven-year journey to retrieve sixty grams of an asteroid

An artist's illustration of what a large meteorite hitting the sea might look like in the first second of impact. We do not know if the area affected 3 billion years ago was covered by water or if the sea was nearby. Credit: Carsten Egestal Thuesen, GEUS

The oldest crater on Earth was discovered in Greenland

The Manicouagan impact crater in Canada. Photo: NASA

Before the asteroid catches us with our pants down

Tzedek and on him the lightning strike, August 20, 2010

Again a heavenly body hit Jupiter

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

A small asteroid passed close to Earth

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

A new goal for NASA - to fight asteroids * On Sunday, a conference in Uni

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

A giant asteroid may hit Earth in 2880