A new study has revealed shocking details behind the extinction of dinosaurs, and it is not pointing at an asteroid. The reason behind the extinction of dinosaurs has always been blamed on a massive asteroid strike around 66 million years ago. But is it the whole truth? This latest study published in the Proceedings of … Read more
At this moment, millions of kilometers from Earth, a lonely spacecraft is hurtling toward its doom. One day, its sacrifice may save countless lives. The first-ever mission of its kind, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is crashing a low-cost “impactor” into an asteroid on Monday. The venture is the first step in developing a … Read more
A massive 80-foot wide asteroid is headed straight for Earth today, September 19. Here’s what NASA said. Earth has witnessed numerous close calls with asteroids in the past few months. August was bombarded with asteroid flybys and the month of September is continuing the trend. 3 asteroids passed by Earth closely just yesterday and 2 … Read more
Dangerous Asteroid 2022 SB is on its way to make a terrifyingly close approach to Earth. Here’s what NASA said. There are three asteroids that are lined up to make a very close approach to Earth, NASA’s JPL tracker alerted. One of them are as large as a giant building at 390 feet, while another … Read more
390-foot asteroid is moving close to Earth tomorrow! Should we worry about it crashing? Check what NASA asteroid watch says. While US space agency NASA is getting set to smash its DART mission spacecraft into an asteroid on September 26 to study how it affects the motion of an asteroid in space, a humongous space … Read more
Description of DART (left) and LICIACube (right). Image: Italian Space Agency DART won’t survive its mission to deflect an asteroid, but the recently deployed LICIACube—a tiny probe equipped with cameras—will document the encounter in gory detail. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) is the space agency’s first demonstration of a defense strategy to protect against … Read more
NASA has issued a warning that a gigantic asteroid is on its way towards Earth. Will the asteroid hit or miss the planet? Here’s what NASA says. Another asteroid is coming towards us! NASA has issued yet another asteroid warning that a gigantic asteroid is heading for our planet. This asteroid, named Asteroid 2022 RQ, … Read more
At 7:17 am local time on June 30, 1908, something entered the atmosphere over Tungusca, Siberia and exploded. The blast, equivalent to about 17 million tons of TNT, flattened around 80 million trees over an area of more than 2,000 square kilometres. The body is suspected to have been a small asteroid, with a diameter … Read more
Artwork of tyrannosaurs fleeing a hail of impact ejecta. getty The meteorite that wiped out Earth’s dinosaurs instantly ignited forest wildfires up to thousands of kilometers from its impact zone, scientists have discovered. A 10-kilometer-wide meteorite struck a shallow sea in what is now Mexico at the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years … Read more
The impact sites of asteroids were identified using CSI techniques usually used to solve crimes. Here’s how the research took place. Asteroids have struck the Earth more than once in the last billion years. Some of them have changed the course of history. These space rocks are also the reason behind the extinction of dinosaurs. … Read more
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