"We think the water came from the melting of nearby sub-surface ice called permafrost, and that the permafrost melting was ...

But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off the coast of Guinea ... impacts are exceedingly rare. The largest meteor impact in living memory is the "super bolide ...

The largest and oldest-known impact site ... meteorite has provided a good indication of the SPA basin's age, the team will have to confirm this data with a sample-return mission from within the ...

Scientists suspect the impact left behind a monstrous crater some 297 miles (487 kilometers ... A graphic showing how the S2 meteorite impact allowed iron-cycling microbes to thrive in the ...

Ornyupa Sangkaman, the foundation's secretary-general, said mining activity would destroy the fragile ecological system and affect the World Heritage site. Ms Ornyupa said a company is seeking ...

Carrying sledge hammers, scientists hiked to the impact site in South Africa to chisel ... have now re-constructed just what the S2 meteorite did when it violently careened into Earth. It gouged out a ...

This rock vapor cloud and dust ejected from the crater would have ... molten rock that form after meteorite impacts—which rained down in the wake of several impact events at the time.

This year’s ballot is led by a fight for who will get the state’s 11 electors, something that could matter depending on the outcome in other swing states. There also is the highly watched race ...

Our sixth deep dive into polling and other data in the seven key swing states. The entire nation will vote on the next president of the United States this fall, but the election will likely come ...

Jamming or spoofing from space would have a much broader impact, potentially affecting every receiver in the area targeted. Even multi-element antennas used to help receivers ignore bad signals ...

Adrian Fontes (D), Arizona Secretary of State: I'm concerned about any conspiracy theories that are peddled by candidates and elected officials. It's sort of like Whac-A-Mole for conspiracy theories.

But Harvard researchers found that something much more unlikely happened when a meteorite nicknamed S2 ... recently led a team that visited the impact site in the Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains ...