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In 1980, a physicist studying a thin clay layer found an iridium spike, and it wasn’t just trace metal: It became one of the biggest clues behind the dinosaurs’ extinction- Scientists found a small asteroid visitor near Earth, and it may be a chunk of the Moon
- What Did Scientists Find Beneath the Atlantic Seafloor? It Was Invisible Until Technology Revealed It
- Asteroid hit North Sea: Has the 20-year mystery of Silverpit Crater in 'world’s most dangerous sea' finally been solved?Asteroid hit North Sea: A long-standing scientific debate has finally been resolved: the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea was formed ...13 Mar, 2026, 09.07 AM IST
- Earth’s Forgotten Collisions: Where Ancient Impact Craters Have Been HidingBeneath Earth's seemingly calm surface lie hidden scars from colossal asteroid impacts. These ancient craters, buried by ice, sediment, and...02 Mar, 2026, 04.12 PM IST
- Scientists uncover giant asteroid crater hiding in plain sight, and it changes everythingScientists have found a huge 900-meter-wide asteroid crater in Guangdong Province, China, three times more massive than the previously larg...22 Nov, 2025, 09.26 PM IST
- Glass from space? Scientists reveal alien finds from an ancient asteroid impact, but a key piece of the cosmic puzzle remains missingScientists studying mysterious glass fragments in southern Australia have discovered they are likely remnants of an asteroid impact from 11...28 Sep, 2025, 06.50 PM IST
- Asteroid 2024 YR4 may smash into moon, wipe out 10,000 satellites, and trigger meteor showers on earthAsteroid 2024 YR4: Scientists detected Asteroid 2024 YR4. It may hit the Moon. There is a 4% chance of impact. A collision could create a l...31 Jul, 2025, 12.29 AM IST
- Moon at risk? Asteroid the size of Leaning Tower of Pisa might not hit Earth, but odds of it striking the Moon have just increasedAstronomers discovered asteroid 2024 YR4. It crosses Earth's orbit. Observations show a slightly increased chance of a lunar impact in 2032...17 Jun, 2025, 12.55 PM IST
- Multiple asteroids may have contributed to dinosaur extinction, scientists revealNew research points to a second asteroid impact possibly contributing to the extinction of dinosaurs, challenging the long-held belief of a...06 Oct, 2024, 03.58 PM IST
- Asteroid’s impact may have led to mysterious 'Mega Tsunami’ on Mars, says reportAccording to a recent report, an asteroid’s impact on Mars may have been the cause of the mysterious "Mega Tsunami."02 Dec, 2022, 10.27 PM IST
- Mystery crater potentially caused by relative of dinosaur-killing asteroidIntriguingly, the crater, named "Nadir" after the nearby volcano Nadir Seamount, is of the same age as the Chicxulub impact caused by a hug...19 Aug, 2022, 06.50 PM IST
- Scientists discover a 5-mile wide undersea crater created as the dinosaurs become extinctScientists say that an asteroid from outer sky slammed into the Earth's surface some 66 million years ago, resulting in a massive crater un...18 Aug, 2022, 05.25 PM IST
- Moon gets a 'makeover' every 81,000 years: StudyCrater counts and radiometric ages from returned samples help derive age estimates for unsampled units on the Moon and other Solar System o...13 Oct, 2016, 01.00 PM IST
- New technique may help divert Earth-bound asteroidsAsteroids headed for Earth, if found early enough, can be acted upon to prevent the impact, researchers said.22 Feb, 2016, 12.37 PM IST
- NASA drones to explore Moon and MarsNASA engineers are developing drones that can fly to areas which are inaccessible to rovers - such as the shaded region of a crater.09 Aug, 2015, 02.21 PM IST
- NASA spacecraft finds impact glass on MarsFormed in the searing heat of a violent asteroid impact, the glasses can encapsulate and preserve biological material for millions of years...09 Jun, 2015, 05.19 PM IST
- Bright spots on dwarf planet Ceres may be active iceA pair of bright spots on Ceres could actually be ice which may be emitting plumes into space, new images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft sugge...18 Mar, 2015, 06.26 PM IST
- Japan asteroid probe Hayabusa2 to lift off Monday after delayHayabusa2 is now scheduled to blast off aboard Japan's main H-IIA rocket from Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan at 1:22 pm (0422 G...29 Nov, 2014, 12.37 PM IST
- Dinosaur whodunit: Is Shiva crater the missing link?It could be the plot of a mega disaster movie. A huge asteroid, nearly 40 km in diameter, comes hurtling towards earth.08 Nov, 2009, 09.58 AM IST
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