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Asteroid crater is over 2.2 billion years old
The oldest crater on Earth in the town of Yarrabubba has a diameter of nearly 70km.
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Detecting asteroids inside the orbit of Venus
Scientists first discovered an asteroid in the orbit of Venus, said the Astronomical Research Center of the International Astronomical Union.
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The 7 billion-year-old star dust in asteroid hits Earth
Scientists identified the giant rock meteorite that fell to Earth half a century ago containing dust and is believed to be the oldest solid material.
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Terrible traces of asteroids falling to Laos
Geologists discovered unusually large gravitational interactions on the territory of Laos, indicating the existence of a crater of 20 km in size. It appeared as a result…
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Earth has just escaped the 'terrorist' from 4 asteroids
NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) found four asteroids rushing towards Earth on 1 January, two of which were discovered only the moment it passed.
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Asteroid is about to graze Earth
The flight path of celestial object 310442 (2000 CH59) will be closest to our planet after Christmas, NASA said in a statement.
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The Earth was heavily contaminated with mercury before the collision with the Chicxulub meteorite
A new study has just published that before Chicxulub asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago, dinosaurs and other living creatures were faced with toxic levels of me…
Archeology
Fossil shells help people find the reason that the Earth is increasingly polluted?
Researchers from Northwestern University in the US conducted research on fossil shells to find the cause of the increasing pollution of the Earth.
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Asteroid diameter of 500m spew rocks into space
Thanks to the NASA spacecraft, scientists observed material eruptions of hundreds of small stones of the asteroid Bennu.
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Upcoming beautiful and biggest meteor shower of the year
Friday night at dawn on Saturday (December 13-14), astronomy lovers will have a chance to admire the Geminids meteor shower
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Warning tragedy meteor strike, wipe out life on Earth
A leading astronomer believes that the scenario of an asteroid plummeting to Earth, wiping out the life of mankind is only a matter of time.
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Japanese probe brings precious specimens back to Earth
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said the Hayabusa 2 probe had left the asteroid Ryugu and was on its way back to Earth.
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NASA renamed asteroid
Scientists at the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) have named the outer planet Neptune (Kuiper belt object - KBO) Ultima Thule a new name is Arrokoth.
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Interstellar objects spread life from Earth into the universe
Along with the discovery of celestial objects from a distant universe, panspermians (the theory that life exists throughout the universe) began to find ways to prove tha…
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Discovered traces of life in the crater 375 million years
The impact crater, 52 km in diameter, caused by asteroids crashing into Earth became a favorable habitat for ancient microorganisms.