The UK’s national synchrotron facility, Diamond Light Source, was used by a large, international collaboration to study grains collected from a near-Earth asteroid to further our understanding of the evolution […]
asteroids
Posted inExtinction events, Fossils & Paleontology, Impact events, Press Release
Death From Space
Tens of tons of extraterrestrial solid material collide with Earth daily. Most of this material is small enough that it burns up in the atmosphere, but some fragments are large […]
Posted inExoplanets, -moons, -comets, Extinction events, Impact events, Press Release, Proxima Centauri
Risks For Life On Proxima b From Sterilizing Asteroid Impacts
We consider the implications that a debris belt located between Proxima b and Proxima c would pose for the rate of large asteroid impacts that could sterilize Proxima b from […]