Asteroids as large as the Gold Gate Bridge are expected to zoom in on the past by the end of this month. It will be the largest and fastest asteroid to travel in our space this year, but it will not be found anywhere nearby to cause any major worries. …
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Despite dominating the planet’s surface for millions of years, dinosaur diversity reached a dramatic conclusion at the end of the planet’s impact on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, about 66 million years ago. It is so swollen with data that it is hard to imagine any room for suspicion that this …
Read More »A meteorite from the Geminid meteor shower on December 12, 2009 over Southall, New York. Photo: Stan Honda / AFP (Getty Images) Meteors formed in the early days of the solar system may contain liquid water, according to new research, credited to the theory that water and other precursors were …
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It has been twelve months since we counted the last minutes of 2019 and we have shouted ‘Happy New Year’ with joy. We were happily unaware of what was in store for us in the following days. For those who have lost their livelihood, their health or, most tragically, their …
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On 5 December 2020 one of the best packages this holiday season came in a small package, parachuted into the Australian Australian Desert from within our solar system. Inside, astronomers were pleased to find the first significant specimens of a rocky asteroid, currently 9 million kilometers (5.6 million miles) away, …
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