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NASA experts explain why a passing asteroid isn't cause for concern, while revealing how often Earth encounters space rocks and preview what's coming in 2029.
The Bosumtwi impact crater in Ghana is different, however. It is well preserved (not deeply eroded or buried under sediments) ...
This year, the alert system for defending the planet against incoming space rocks was activated for the first time. It won’t be the last ...
When an asteroid struck Earth some 66 million years ago, the one blamed for wiping out the dinosaurs, it is believed to have sent a tidal wave crashing onto North America.
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A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth. The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of ...
Sixty-six million years ago, a roughly 10-kilometer-wide asteroid collided with Earth and killed the dinosaurs. A study published last month showed that this asteroid came from the outer part of ...
In brief: A massive impact is the most commonly accepted theory on what caused the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Scientists continue to uncover more evidence supporting ...
Scientists have discovered new evidence that the rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, abruptly ending the age of dinosaurs, was a bit of an oddball. The nature of this apocalyptic ...
The researchers said that of all the cosmic bodies they have studied that struck Earth in the last 500 million years, only the one that exterminated the dinosaurs was a water-rich asteroid.