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The incredible source of water on Earth
American scientists have found the origin of the first drops of water on Earth, which helps our planet become a place of life.
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Metals from extraterrestrials can help people treat cancer
About 65 million years ago, an asteroid collided with Earth destroyed the life of dinosaurs.
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The mission to bring 4.5-year asteroid specimens back to Earth
NASA launched the OSIRIS-Rex into space last September with the task of studying Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, and taking the specimen back to Earth, NJ, on Oc…
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Two years in the darkness of the Earth after the asteroid disaster
US scientists concluded that the Earth was dark for two years after being hit by an asteroid 65 million years ago, Phys.org reported yesterday.
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The earth used to be a sphere
The announcement by Australian and American scientists can make us change the way we think about Earth's formation 4.5 billion years ago.
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Shock with a devastating degree of devastation when asteroids hit Earth
The collision can immediately erase a large city in a split second or create a tsunami, while dust, smoke and ash from burnt forests will make the global atmosphere near…
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6 scientific terms ensure you are still misused in everyday life
If you talk to a scientist, sometimes two people may not understand each other. Part of the reason comes from a lot of scientific terms, when used in common language has…
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The Earth can form from small stones
The new study by Swedish scientists shows that asteroids are formed from small circular particles under the effect of magnetic fields and that the Earth may also form fr…
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Why does the earth divide the seasons?
About 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized asteroid collided with the Earth. As a result, the layers of rock and dust gradually formed into the moon. It also causes the e…
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New hypothesis about the emergence of people on earth
According to British scientist Ted Nield, the arrival of humans on earth has been triggered by natural disasters, ...
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Asteroids are longer than the football field about to rush through the Earth
The two asteroids will fly over the Earth 5 hours apart, the largest meteorite with an estimated diameter of 120 meters, longer than the football field.
Archeology
Bad luck makes dinosaurs extinct
Asteroids have crashed into Earth at the time of the most vulnerable dinosaurs, leading to the elimination of this animal on the surface of the globe.
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Absolute dinosaurs destroyed for two owls
US scientists say that not one, but two consecutive asteroids colliding with the earth in about 300 years of extinction.
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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.
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Add an explanation of the destruction of dinosaurs
A collision 160 million years ago between two orbiting meteorites between Mars and Jupiter caused many meteorites. One of them shot straight at Earth, which is the cause…