This, remember, is the colossal event that wiped out the dinosaurs. The analysis of rocks drilled in 2016 from the leftover crater show they underwent a process of fluidisation. The pulverised ...
They cannot date the event exactly, or say whether it came before or after the asteroid which left the 180km-wide Chicxulub crater in Mexico. That one ended the reign of the dinosaurs. But they ...
“The fate of the dinosaurs and many other species was sealed by this projectile from the outer reaches of the solar system.” Previous research claimed that the rock was a “long-period ...
XA1, struck Earth on Dec. 3, 2024, burning up over Siberia. It's the 11th detected before impact. No damage was reported.
UK scientists used hundreds of tiny fossils that lived in the sea at the time to understand climate shifts tens of millions ...
Researchers discovered a 3.26-billion-year-old asteroid impact acted as 'giant fertilizer bomb,' aiding early microbial life.