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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 ...
Astronomers have identified a skyscraper-sized asteroid, named 2025 SC79, orbiting the Sun in just 128 days, marking it as the second-fastest known asteroid.
A fast-orbiting, 700-metre asteroid discovered within Venus's orbit highlights hidden near-Sun populations and underscores ...
Tianwen 2 will collect samples and deliver them back to Earth in late 2027, using a reentry capsule. Then the spacecraft will slingshot around our planet for another deep-space rendezvous: a visit ...
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Asteroid Apophis: Animation Shows Asteroid's Nail-Biting Close Approach To Earth In 2029
In April 2029, Apophis is predicted by NASA to come within 32,000 kilometers (20,000 miles) of the Earth's surface. Closer ...
New findings indicate dinosaurs were flourishing just before the asteroid strike. Fossils from New Mexico show diverse and ...
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2025 SC79 Is The Second-Fastest Asteroid Ever Found – And Only The Second Within Venus' Orbit
The object is known as 2025 SC79, and it is 700 meters (2,297 feet) across. It goes around the Sun every 128 days, and it ...
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$100,000 quadrillion asteroid Psyche may be the product of metal volcanoes, study hints
The metal-coated asteroid Psyche may have had eruptions of molten iron and nickel on its surface. This situation was more ...
For much of the past century, scientists thought dinosaurs were already in decline long before the asteroid impact that ended ...
A new quasi-satellite, 2025 PN7, has been discovered, joining a group of asteroids that orbit the Sun alongside Earth. These ...
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