Archeology
Discover the largest crater on Earth
Scientists believe that the Australian cracks are a trace of the largest crater ever created when meteorites hit Earth.
Chicxulub
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Archeology
New discovery of the extinction of dinosaurs
Previously, scientists always believed that Chicxulub crater craters in the Gulf of Mexico were the result of a collision between Earth and Chicxulub and it was this imp…
Archeology
Meteors do not destroy all dinosaurs
US scientists have found evidence that dinosaurs continue to live another 300,000 years after an asteroid hit the earth.
Archeology
Challenge the meteor hypothesis that extinct dinosaurs
A hypothesis has long been accepted that the Chicxulub crater, which holds the focal point for the dinosaur disappearance, along with about 65% of other species from 65…
Space science
The Sun's search for a twin brother
In the 1980s, physicist Richard Muller at the University of California, Berkeley presented the idea of a twin star with our Sun.
Space science
Life migrates from the earth
For years, scientists have hypothesized that bacteria might have been brought to earth on a comet or meteorite, seeding life today. But the panspermia theory poses the o…
Doomsday
Doomsday dinosaurs are extremely wet
Geophysicists have now created the most detailed 3-dimensional seismic images of the Chicxulub meteorite that is almost submerged under this sea. Data show that the mete…
Environment
The stone wall reveals the cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs
US scientists have mapped a large submarine cliff in the southern Gulf of Mexico, which is thought to contain clues to the extinction dinosaur collision millions of year…