An asteroid impact millions of years ago may have provided a natural incubator for early life on Earth, scientists say.

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A hidden crater in South Korea may hold clues to one of the biggest turning points in Earth’s history: the rise of oxygen. Scientists discovered fossil-like stromatolites — layered structures built by ...

Traces of microorganisms were found in a crater in South Korea. Billions of years ago, they may have triggered the Great ...

Dante’s vision of Hell may echo the physics of a massive asteroid strike, offering a new way to read the Inferno.

A discovery by a South Korean research team suggests that impact-generated lakes may have fostered early oxygen-producing ...

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The asteroid that smacked into our planet about 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary may have been bad news for dinosaurs, but it was good news for fungi. According to new ...

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The Psyche spacecraft is bound for a metal-rich asteroid that it will examine up close starting in 2029. But first, it needs ...

BEIJING -- Using lunar samples collected by the Chang'e 6 mission, Chinese scientists have discovered a significant shift in ...

Long before telescopes revealed an unruly Solar System, Dante Alighieri imagined something terrible falling from the heavens. In his 14th-century Inferno, the falling object was Lucifer, the Lord of ...