A colossal asteroid once boiled the oceans. It also did the unexpected.
D: Iron in the ocean (from the ocean circulation, from the impactor itself, and from erosion), along with nutrients (like ...
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The Age of Dinosaurs Ended With Two Asteroid Impacts, Scientists Say
Scientists now say that's almost precisely what happened to the dinosaurs -- just on a much, much larger scale. The asteroid ...
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Watch How NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Flew By Asteroid Dinkinesh
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...
Asteroid enters Earth's atmosphere and bursts over the Pacific Ocean; What happens next is surprising
Asteroids continue to closely approach Earth, with 10 atmospheric entries recorded this year. The latest, 2024 UQ, entered on ...
Meteorite 200 times larger than the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit Earth 3.3 billion years ago. But it helped life to flourish
This meteorite, designated as S2, is roughly 200 times larger than the Chicxulub responsible for the dinosaurs’ extinction.
Phil Mickelson's lavish LIV lifestyle boasts mighty car collection and rare asteroid
Like many of his fellow golfers, Phil Mickelson lives a life of luxury as a result of the fortune he has amassed over the ...
Space’s Secret Ingredient: Pyrene’s Role in Our Universe
MIT researchers have found pyrene, a complex carbon molecule, in a distant interstellar cloud similar to the one that formed ...
NASA issues asteroid alert! Two giant airplane-sized space rocks coming very close to Earth today
NASA is tracking two asteroids passing near Earth soon. Despite their close approaches, experts confirm there’s no threat. Instead, these events offer an exciting research opportunity. Observing these ...
According to a New Study, Ancient Ants Were Farming Long Before Humans Existed
Ants have been farming fungi since shortly after an asteroid triggered a mass extinction 66 million years ago, according to a ...
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Five astronomically spooky sights to help usher in the Hallowe'en season
More commonly, this star goes by the name Fomalhaut, and it has been a valuable target for observation with telescopes like ...
Four large ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroids headed towards Earth – but it should be fine
The asteroids range from 100ft to 580ft across, and two of these space rocks were only discovered earlier this month, according to Nasa’s asteroid watch dashboard. The largest of them, dubbed 2002 ...