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Massive asteroid impacts did not change Earth’s climate in the long term

Two massive asteroids hit Earth around 35.65 million years ago, but did not lead to any lasting changes in the…

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Lone Star’ Trailer Teases Asteroid in Final Episodes

After the show’s midseason finale, the trailer for Fox’s “9-1-1: Lone Star”s remaining episodes dropped — the show will return on…

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Asteroid grains shed light on the outer solar system’s origins

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the…

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A colossal asteroid once boiled the oceans. It also did the unexpected.

Chaos once reigned on Earth. Huge asteroids or chunks of ancient objects once pummeled planets in the unsettled solar system,…

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SpaceX launches Europe’s Hera asteroid mission ahead of Hurricane Milton

“This is the first time that we send a spacecraft to a small body, which is actually a multi-satellite system,…

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Preventing an asteroid apocalypse, and Cult of the Lamb’s first arc wraps up

New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention. Harper Normally a book described as being largely about…

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Ant agriculture began 66 million years ago in the aftermath of the asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs

When humans began farming crops thousands of years ago, agriculture had already been around for millions of years. In fact,…

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Gigantic asteroid impact shifted the axis of Solar System’s biggest moon

Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a Kobe University researcher realized that the…

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NASA’s DART impact permanently changed the shape and orbit of asteroid moon

When NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with an asteroid moon called Dimorphos in 2022, the moon was…

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Tracking down the asteroid that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs

Geoscientists from the University of Cologne have led an international study to determine the origin of the huge piece of…

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