Tag: asteroid

Site of asteroid impact changed the history of life

ASTRONOMY
An asteroid, also known as the Chicxulub Impactor, hit Earth some 66 million years ago, causing a crater 180 km wide. The impact of...

China is building an asteroid deflection mission of its own, due for launch in 2025

ASTRONOMY
There's an old joke that the dinosaurs are only extinct because they didn't develop a space agency. The implication, of course, is that unlike...

Could the blueprint for life have been generated in asteroids?

ASTRONOMY
Using new analyses, scientists have just found the last two of the five informational units of DNA and RNA that had yet to be...

Dinosaur leg might be from the day the asteroid struck, scientists claim

PALEONTOLOGY
An immaculately preserved dinosaur leg uncovered in North Dakota may be a relic from the day a massive asteroid slammed into Earth, bringing the age...

How did cockroaches survive the dino-killing asteroid strike?

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Why they may outlast humans on Earth. When the rock now known as the Chicxulub impactor plummeted from outer space and slammed into the Earth...

Dinosaurs ‘already in decline’ before asteroid apocalypse

PALEONTOLOGY
Dinosaurs were already in an evolutionary decline tens of millions of years before the meteorite impact that finally finished them off, new research has...
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