making it a very intriguing asteroid impact simulation. The app, while it may seem a bit silly in and of itself to most people, is actually a very useful tool if you’re worried about the massive ...

Some scientists maintain that the fracture pattern in these quartz crystals could only have been caused by a massive asteroid or comet impact. The pattern is prevalent in quartz found at or near ...

A small asteroid ... the microblogging site X. The post read, "A small asteroid has just been spotted on a collision course with Earth. At around ~70 cm in diameter, the impact will be harmless ...

This is only the eighth time ever that a small earth-bound asteroid has been seen just before impact, but the accomplishment is quickly becoming more common. The asteroid was only about a meter in ...

Scientists have presented a stunningly preserved leg of a dinosaur. The limb, complete with skin, is just one of a series of remarkable finds emerging from the Tanis fossil site in the US State of ...

identified evidence for the impact in the form of thousands of tiny droplets of silica — glass beads formed when rocks are vaporized by the extreme heat and force of an asteroid impact ...

If they contain traces of rocks from Mars, then that would suggest they formed from impact ejecta, but if their composition is more like an asteroid, then it could support Kegerreis' model.

For an asteroid to actually destroy life on Earth ... managed to survive and they're hoping that finding the exact impact site of the crater will help. Humans are smarter than dinosaurs The ...

Termed the Cretaceous-Paleogene (also called the K-T and K-P) boundary, the post-impact Earth changed. As the asteroid or comet struck Earth, it vaporized some of the planet’s bedrock ...

When an international team of scientists studied that map, they found a 16-mile-wide, bowl-like depression - it looked like a giant asteroid impact crater. The scientists wanted to be sure ...

The asteroid will pass closer to the Earth than most others, but luckily will not impact - news that should bring some festive joy to everyone. So instead of it being just a Merry Christmas ...