For an asteroid to actually destroy life on Earth, it will have to be bigger than the one that caused the dinosaurs to go extinct ... finding the exact impact site of the crater will help.
“Extinction can mark the end of a dynasty, but we must not forget that our own species might not have evolved if it weren’t for the impact and the timing of events that saw the end of the dinosaurs".
A study published in Nature has revealed that the mass extinction of dinosaurs ... by multiple asteroid impacts, not just one. Researchers mapped an underwater crater off the coast of Guinea ...
It currently lacks Earth-like planets but could potentially form them in the future due to such asteroid collisions generating significant amounts of dust. The JWST’s powerful instruments ...
Dinosaurs went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous Period 65 million years ago. Now scientists have found extraordinary evidence which documents the colossal asteroid impact event. It was widely ...
Lava flows like these provide evidence of a rash of volcanic activity for at least 500,000 years leading up to the extinction of the dinosaurs ... that a comet or asteroid impact would cause ...
A crater at the edge of the Yucatán ... Sun-blocking dust from asteroid impact drove the dinosaur extinction The Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago filled the sky with fine silicate dust ...
Several species of horned dinosaurs ... to an asteroid impact but to a large volcanically-formed region in western India called the Deccan Traps. Eruptions in the area were common during the late ...
Was it the asteroid or colossal volcanism that initiated the demise of the dinosaurs ... the impact event is exactly contemporaneous with the extinction." Investigations of a 200km-wide crater ...
The Chicxulub asteroid strike is well-known for its role in dinosaur extinction ... New Evidence of a Second Asteroid Impact A lesser-known crater, the Nadir, was discovered off the ...
This, remember, is the colossal event that wiped out the dinosaurs ... mass extinction that followed - the Chicxulub investigation will also help scientists as they study big impact craters ...