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NASA Tracking Building-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth
NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five ...
Most Carbon-Rich Asteroids Never Make It to Earth—and Now We Know Why
Only the hardy carbon-rich asteroids make it to Earth, after surviving the Sun’s heat and the fiery burnup that occurs when ...
See what the asteroid that we thought might hit Earth looks like
This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...
Dinosaurs could have lived with humans without the asteroid impact, study reveals – here’s what caused their decline before
A new study challenges the idea that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact. Researchers at UCL Earth Sciences ...
Webb Zooms In on Building-Sized Asteroid Once Feared to Hit Earth – And It’s Stranger Than Expected
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope took a close look at asteroid 2024 YR4, which was once thought to be on a potential ...
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Rethink of fossils hints dinosaurs still thrived before asteroid hit
The number of dinosaurs may have been stable before the asteroid impact, despite evidence that species were getting less ...
Were dinosaurs headed for extinction even before massive asteroid strike? Scientists offer new clues
An analysis of North America’s fossil record for the 18 million years before dinosaurs disappeared suggests the prehistoric ...
Life recovered rapidly at site of dino-killing asteroid: A hydrothermal system may have helped
About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...
Dinosaurs’ apparent decline prior to asteroid may be due to poor fossil record
The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be ...
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Dinosaur-killing asteroid left behind a huge crater that actually helped life recover
The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life ...
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How mammals survived the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs
Small fossils show mammals moved to the ground before the dinosaurs vanished. New plants changed habitats, giving better food ...