A new study by Canadian researchers finds that if the asteroid 2024 YR4 hits the Moon in 2032, fragments could head tow…
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Deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean, the Nadir crater formed around the same time as Chicxulub—the crater left by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs off the edge of the…
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The next time you uncork a bottle of wine, raise a glass to the dinosaurs — at least in spirit. In a new study, researchers from the Field Museum of…
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Nature & Travel
A mega‑volcano, not the asteroid: Simulation points to the Deccan Traps for dinosaur extinction
Scientists have long debated how the dinosaurs vanished 66 million years ago. The dominant explanation blames a massive asteroid that struck the Yucatán Peninsula. But a team at Dartmouth College…
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New evidence that the impactor came from beyond Jupiter could help resolve a long-running debate in cosmochemistry. When an asteroid struck the Gulf of Mexico 66 million years ago, Earth…
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Science & Technology
Debris From NASA’s DART Impact Could Reach Earth and Mars — When It Might Arrive
On September 26, 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft deliberately struck Dimorphos, the small moon of asteroid Didymos, to change its orbit. According to NASA, the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission…
