About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of…
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The deep space asteroid that recently made headlines for its potential to collide with Earth received its own photoshoot courtesy…
Read More » An international team is currently closely tracking the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4. The impact probability estimates for the year 2032…
Read More » New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago…
Read More » New observations of 2024 YR4 conducted with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) and facilities around the…
Read More » Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a…
Read More » A new climate modeling study published in the journal Science Advances by researchers from the IBS Center for Climate Physics…
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With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent might…
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A meteor contrail is seen over Chelyabinsk, Russia on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013, in a photo taken by a mobile…
Read More » Japanese collaborators detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu…
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