JF flew about 199,000 miles (320,000 km) away from Earth. It's estimated size is about 34 feet wide (10 meters), roughly the ...

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Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 ...

Some 66 million years ago, a six-mile wide asteroid slammed into the ocean ... including the non-avian dinosaurs. Now a study published in the journal Geology uses the tiny white specks in ...

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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. Marine fossils and rock ...

triggering a global cataclysm that eradicated about three-quarters of the world’s species and ended the age of dinosaurs. The impact pulverized the asteroid and spread its debris worldwide ...

Here’s how it works. A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within one-third of the Earth-moon distance.