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A new Dutch-led study suggests the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago took place during springtime.

BEIJING, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese research team has found that a meteorite hit the moon about one million years ago through data sent by the Change-4 probe

Mission to land on the double asteroid is all set to happen in November. Dubbed as ‘mountain in the sky with another rock the size of the Great Pyramid swinging around it’, is first-ever mission involving the act of a team of astronauts landing on an asteroid to destroy it. ESA said in a statement said the mission will “revolutionise our understanding of asteroids and how to protect ourselves from them”. The heart-stopping mission has been called Hera.

American cosmic airburst in late Roman times revealed by Tankersly and Saniel-Banrey of University of Cincinnati. Meteorites, silicious vesicular melt glass, Fe and Si-rich magnetic spherules, positive Ir and Pt anomalies, and burned...

A study published in the journal Geology rules out that extreme volcanic episodes had any influence on the massive extinction of species in the late Cretaceous. The results confirm the hypothesis that it was a giant meteorite impact what caused...