15 March 2019
Major comet impact burned Earth 13,000 years ago
... of a changing climate right now as wildfires rage across the globe from California to Australia, however we know that a comet impact is not to blame. The same cannot be said for Earth 13,000 years ago but the crater beneath...
February 2016
Is Jupiter Really Our Protective Shield?
... to support liquid water or life. While the Giant Impact model is being challenged by a new model [4], impact events are still a necessary part of the equation. A rain of comets impacting a young Earth delivered the volatile compounds necessary for...
02 October 2017
New molecule discovery may have implications for chemistry on Earth
... further supports the idea that organohalogens could arrive on planets in young systems during planet formation or via comet impacts. The team also hint that another organohalogen, fluoromethane (CH3F), might also be present in IRAS 16293-2422...
15 June 2015
Rosetta’s Philae lander awakens
... the study of faraway worlds – it can also provide vital clues about life here on Earth, and how comet impacts may have influenced our own planet over the course of its existence. The Rosetta mission made...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
... episodes of atmosphere escape, with asteroid and/or comet impacts blasting away substantial fractions of the atmosphere toward the...moving outward, telling us what the Mars counterpart to a comet tail consists of, and where the material goes. Several ...
28 January 2019
Oldest Earth rocks found on the Moon
... Scientist Jeremy Bellucci, concluded that the rock was flung from our planet when a large asteroid or comet impacted the Earth, sending this and other material flying through our primitive atmosphere, which subsequently collided...
