How We Proved An Asteroid Wiped Out The Dinosaurs | Big History Project
Geologist Walter Alvarez gets to the bottom of a scientific murder mystery..
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How NASA's spacecraft will smash into an asteroid to save Earth next year
Could we really deflect an asteroid heading for Earth in 2022? An expert explains NASA’s latest DART mission.
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A short new movie of a comet’s surface is pretty incredible | Ars Technica
Bright dots that look like snow are in fact stars...
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An enormous ‘mega comet’ is flying into our solar system | New Scientist
Astronomers have found a large object entering our solar system – it could be an unusually large comet or even a minor planet, and it will get near...
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Dinosaur-killing Asteroid Could Have Caused 2 Years of Darkness
These new details about how the climate could have dramatically changed following the impact of a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid will be published Aug....
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MIT system predicts the best way to deflect an Earth-bound asteroid
We’re not in immediate danger of any asteroids colliding with Earth — at least not as far as anyone’s aware. But it’s not like it hasn’t happened b...
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SpaceX craft overshot Mars’ orbit, heading towards asteroid belt | The Verge
Deeper space Elon Musk’s Tesla roadster, which launched on top of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy earlier today, is going farther out into the Solar Syste...
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The Colorado School of Mines Wants to Launch the First-Ever Space Mining Program
WIRED: The first-ever graduate program for space miners-in-training is set to launch next year. And the inaugural class is already taking lessons.
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