It looks like an explosive has gone off. It's an absolute crater.' ...
Cosmic “touchdown airbursts” — explosions of comets or asteroids above Earth’s surface — may be far more common and ...
From fruit flies that bite to a tiny mouse opossum and a feathered dinosaur preserved with the remains of its last meal, more ...
The first anomalous thing people living in Manson noticed was the water. Iowa’s groundwater typically has a fairly high ...
Life on Earth may have begun with a gift from a comet. Its existence was once threatened by an asteroid. Its future may ...
(via Be Smart) A giant asteroid impact ended the age of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. How did this mass extinction play out, moment by moment? In this video we meet a geologist who has explored ...
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The end of the dinosaurs was clearly linked to an asteroid impact that brought the Cretaceous period to a close. But the details of their end have remained a matter of debate since the impact crater ...
The impactor believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs and other life forms on Earth some 66 million years ago likely came from the outer half of the main asteroid belt, a region previously thought to ...
This deep-dive explores the Chicxulub impact crater and what’s left of the dinosaur-killer asteroid today. Supreme Court issues major announcement Jennifer Aniston Reacts to Learning Reese Witherspoon ...
The city-size asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago and doomed the dinosaurs to extinction came from the northeast at a steep angle, maximizing the amount of climate-changing gases unleashed ...