Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...
Around 66 million years ago, the reign of the dinosaurs came to a fiery end. An asteroid about 7 miles (12 kilometers) wide, ...
Deflecting asteroids by running spaceships into them may sound like science fiction, but it's quite real. And it's quite a ...
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The Dinosaurs of North America Were Thriving Up Until an Asteroid Wiped Them Off the Face of the Earth, Scientists Argue
A new study of dinosaur biodiversity challenges the belief that the megafauna were on their way out 66 million years ago ...
The Earth often gets a few visitors in the solar system, but some stick around for a while. Here's what to know about the ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4% chance of colliding with Earth’s moon in 2032, and some scientists are considering whether they ...
If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...
Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed ...
NASA has warned of a new cosmic phenomenon that could affect Earth. It is neither the comet 3I/ATLAS, nor the already famous ...
The universe has quasi-moons, mini-moons, and moonlets, but no official definition of what counts as a moon.
A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...
Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, ...
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