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Asteroid which killed the dinosaurs acidified the oceans

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Scientists find disturbing evidence of the space rock impact’s devastating effect on our planet. (Source: University of St Andrews/ SWNS) The asteroid which wiped out the dinosaurs acidified the oceans and cemented the creatures’ tragic fate, scientists have claimed. Analysis of fossilised algae has revealed the grim after-effect a devastating impact 66 million years ago had […]

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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Captures Asteroid Zipping by Crab Nebula – TechEBlog

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Photo credit: Astro Melina via RTEver since NASA and ESA gave the public access to its Hubble Space Telescope archives, amateur astronomers have come across some magnificent photographs that would have otherwise gone unnoticed, like this image of an asteroid crossing in front of the Crab Nebula. Melina Thévenot found this image while searching through

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Asteroid as big as a bus could hit Earth later this century, ESA warns

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We can predict the arrival of just one of these objects with pinpoint accuracy (Picture: Getty) An asteroid could be on a collision course with Earth, the European Space Agency has announced. Cosmologists on the continent keep a list of all the most dangerous space rocks – and they have just added an object called

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Japan’s Hayabusa2 Spacecraft Drops Off Its Last Robot on Asteroid Ryugu

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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft has been hanging around the asteroid Ryugu for more than a year, dropping off robots and blasting the surface with metal slugs. The Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) hopes to bring Hayabusa2 and its precious cargo of asteroid

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NASA building new £480 million space telescope after 450ft asteroid narrowly missed Earth

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NASA has revealed it is building a new space telescope to survey the sky for potentially hazardous asteroids that may be on a collision course with Earth. The infrared telescope, which is expected to cost $600 million (480 million), could reportedly launch as soon as 2025. It will enable the US space agency to find

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How life on Earth was boosted by an asteroid collision 446m years ago

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Something mysterious happened nearly half a billion years ago that triggered one of the most important changes in the history of life on Earth. Suddenly, there was an explosion of species, with the biodiversity of invertebrate animals increasing from a very low level to something similar to what we see today. The most popular explanation

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Cataclysmic asteroid collision 470m years ago was crucial for life on Earth

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An illustration issued by the Southwest Research Institute showing the giant asteroid collision in outer space that produced the dust that led to an ice age on Earth. (PA) A gigantic asteroid collision in space 470 million years ago is responsible for creating the right conditions for life on Earth. What’s more, clues from the

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Asteroid collision led to Ice Age 470 million years ago – and scientists want to recreate it

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The idea of an asteroid collision triggering an Ice Age on Earth might sound like the plot of a science-fiction blockbuster, but according to a new study, it was once a reality. Researchers from Lund University have revealed that a collision in the asteroid belt 470 million years ago filled the solar system with dust,

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Rocks from 66-million-year-old asteroid crater reveal how the dinosaurs died

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New light had been shed on the day the dinosaurs died, after scientists drilled almost a mile into the crater left by the asteroid that wiped them out 66 million years ago. Rocks dug out of the crater are essentially “time capsules” from the day a giant asteroid smashed into Earth with the equivalent power

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