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Why Do So Many Tiny Asteroids Have Moons?
You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...
'Bennu, Apophis and more': List of NASA's 'Most Wanted' asteroids that could threaten Earth
About 66 million years ago, a city-sized asteroid struck Earth, creating a 100-mile-wide crater in Mexico and causing the ...
Scientists have captured Earth’s climate over the last 485 million years. Here’s the surprising place we stand now.
An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...
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An Asteroid Struck Jupiter's Moon Four Billion Years Ago, And The Collision Changed The Moon's Topography And Tilt Forever
The largest moon in the solar system is Ganymede, which orbits the largest planet, Jupiter. New research suggests that an ...
Work is underway on NASA's next-generation asteroid hunter
The mirrors for NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other ...
Shockingly huge asteroid, over 500 feet in size, approaching Earth at high speed, warns NASA
NASA is closely observing an asteroid named 2024 ON, which measures about 1,150 feet by 590 feet and travels at approximately ...
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New fossil fish species scales up evidence of Earth's evolutionary march
Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...
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Stadium-sized asteroid deemed 'potentially hazardous' by NASA, is expected to move 'relatively close' to Earth
Earth has not been hit by a meteor of 2024 ON's size since prehistoric times. FLASHBACK: STUDY SAYS ASTEROID THAT KILLED THE ...
Astronomers are getting better at detecting asteroids before they hit Earth—and it could save us from catastrophe
On September 4 2024, astronomers discovered an asteroid, 1 meter in diameter, heading towards Earth. The space rock would ...
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Scientists Offer New Theory for How ‘the Great Dying’ Wiped Out 90 Percent of Life on Earth
The prevailing theory has been that volcanic activity in the Siberian Traps released massive amounts of carbon dioxide.
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466 Million Years Ago, Earth Potentially Had A Ring System That Impacted Its Climate
A ring system may explain evidence of impacts in the geological record, but it may have also impacted the evolution of life ...
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Collisions could increase chance of 'God of Destruction' asteroid Apophis hitting Earth
A chance encounter with another asteroid could steer Apophis destructively close to Earth during a future passage.