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An asteroid and volcano 'double punch' doomed the dinosaurs, study suggests Major volcanic eruptions could have caused mass extinctions throughout Earth's history, including the one that wiped out the dinosaurs around 66 million years ago. Currently, the leading theory to explain the mass extinction that saw the end of the ...
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DART impact: What to expect Earth-based telescopes will be able to see this change, verifying the test was successful. A CubeSat deployed by DART will also observe the impact, while the European Space Agency's Hera probe will visit Dimorphos in 2026 to study the crater DART made.
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NASA's Asteroid-Crashing DART Mission Is Ready for Impact When NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) slams into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos, it will be our first attempt to demonstrate our ability to deflect dangerous incoming asteroids. For decades, scientists around the world have been scanning the ...
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NASA Webb Telescope Unveils Neptune's Rings For First Time Since 1989 When we imagine a world embraced by cosmic haloes, we of course envision Saturn. One might argue that Saturn based its entire personality on those dazzling rings -- and rightfully so. They're solid. Easily visible. Luxurious even.
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Constraining the nucleon size with relativistic nuclear collisions It may be hard to imagine that the debris of violent heavy ion collisions—which dissolve the boundaries of protons and neutrons and produce thousands of new particles—can be used to gain detailed insight into the properties of nucleons.
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A handful of universities seem to control flow of ideas, people in academia Just five U.S. universities have trained 1-in-8 tenure-track faculty members serving at the nation's institutions of higher learning, according to new University of Colorado Boulder research. The study, published Sept. 21 in the journal Nature, ...
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Neptune and Its Rings Come Into Focus With Webb Telescope No spacecraft has visited Neptune since 1989, when the NASA probe Voyager 2 flew past on its way out of the solar system. · Ground-based observatories and the Hubble Space Telescope have taken many images of Neptune in the past three decades.
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Naming unnamed species of bacteria in the age of big data In a paper recently published in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, researchers in the U.K. and Austria have named more than 65,000 different kinds of microbes. The study, led by Professor Mark Pallen at the Quadram ...
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American, Russians to blast off for ISS as war rages in Ukraine NASA astronaut Frank Rubio (L), and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, are set to blast off to the International Space Station (ISS). A US astronaut and two ...
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Scientists expose vulnerabilities of critical Antarctic ice shelf Pine Island Ice Shelf in West Antarctica, which holds back enough ice to raise sea levels by 0.5 meters, could be more vulnerable to complete disintegration than previously thought. A new study led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientists shows two ...
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