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An Asteroid Will Fly By Earth in 4 Years. Scientists Are Racing to Uncover Its Secrets.
As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...
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The Asteroid That Was Predicted to Hit Earth: See It in a New Image
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured images of the asteroid with two cameras, including the Near-Infrared Camera and ...
Dinosaurs Weren’t Fading Before the Asteroid—We Just Suck at Finding Their Fossils
New analysis shows several families of dinosaurs were likely thriving in North America in the latter days of the dinosaur era ...
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New Evidence Debunks the Theory That Dinosaurs Were Declining Before the Asteroid
New research suggests the theory that dinosaurs were declining before Chicxulub is the result of a poor (and misleading) fossil record.
Why meteorites that hit Earth have less water than the asteroid bits brought back by space probes — a planetary scientist explains
A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are ...
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Dinosaurs' apparent decline prior to asteroid may be due to poor fossil record
The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil record from that time rather than a genuine ...
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Were dinosaurs headed for extinction even before massive asteroid strike? Scientists offer new clues
It’s a long-standing debate in paleontology: Were dinosaurs thriving when an asteroid hit Earth one fateful spring ... focusing on the 18 million years before the mass extinction at the end ...