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The asteroid that ended the dinosaur age struck Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula about 66 million years ago, and the sulphur-rich rocks beneath it helped turn a roughly 10-kilometre object into a global climate disaster - Space DailySpace Daily · Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:30:00 GMTOn August 12, for the first time in 28 months, the Moon's shadow will sweep across Earth in a total solar eclipse over Greenland, Iceland and Spain — and just hours later, the Perseid meteor shower will peak under a moonless sky, setting up one of the most ex - Space DailySpace Daily · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:22:27 GMTMore than 45,000 meteorites have been collected from Antarctica, not because more fall there, but because flowing ice carries dark rocks into blue-ice stranding zones while the wind strips away snow, concentrating pieces of the Moon, Mars and asteroids on o - Space DailySpace Daily · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 06:25:39 GMTThe key to colonizing Mars may be hidden inside asteroids - ScienceDailyScienceDaily · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:30:54 GMTThe asteroid belt looks dense in every diagram ever printed in a textbook, but every spacecraft sent through it since 1972 has crossed without hitting a single asteroid — because the real belt is 99.9% empty space, spread across a region larger than Earth's ent - Space DailySpace Daily · Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:30:00 GMTIn April 2029, asteroid Apophis will pass just 32,000 kilometres above Earth—inside the orbit of geostationary satellites—and NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft will follow close behind to see what Earth’s gravity did to it - Space DailySpace Daily · Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:30:00 GMTScientists have blamed sulfur released by the Chicxulub impact for the impact winter that killed the dinosaurs for decades, but the meteorite responsible belongs to a class that contains markedly less sulfur than the types previously proposed as the culprit - Space DailySpace Daily · Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:12:39 GMT3I/ATLAS, only the third comet confirmed to come from beyond our solar system, carries water with a heavy-hydrogen ratio 40 times higher than Earth's oceans, evidence it formed somewhere far colder than our own star system ever was - Space DailySpace Daily · Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:46:36 GMT