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Meteor Crater in Arizona is one of the best-preserved impact craters on Earth. Credit: Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz
Dating craters: Wolfe Creek is younger, Meteor Crater older, than previously thought
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Did a giant impact and a crashing submoon form the bizarre ridge around Iapetus?
Phil Plait
Apr 9, 2021
A close view of the weird ridge wrapping around the equator of Saturn’s moon Iapetus. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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A half million years ago, Antarctica was hit by a blowtorch from space
Phil Plait
Apr 6, 2021
Artwork depicting a “touchdown jet”, a plume of superheated gas created when an asteroid vaporizes high off the Earth’s surface but still manages to reach the ground. This leaves no crater behind but still can devastate the land underneath it. Credit: Mar
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The Midnight Sky's apocalyptic disaster has us wondering: What cosmic threats are out there?
Cassidy Ward
Dec 30, 2020
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On Friday, a small asteroid passed just 400 km from Earth!
Phil Plait
Nov 16, 2020
Illustration of a near-Earth asteroid, created using actual space images of Earth and the asteroid Mathilde. Credit: Earth: ESA/Rosetta; asteroid Mathilde: NASA/NEAR
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UPDATE: Incredible footage of OSIRIS-REx tagging an asteroid
Phil Plait
Nov 2, 2020
Moments before sample collection, the OSIRIS-REx boom and sample collector shadow stretched across the surface of the asteroid Bennu. Most of those rocks are a few centimeters across. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin
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No, an asteroid is not likely to hit Earth the day before the election
Phil Plait
Oct 20, 2020
… and I feel fine. Credit: Dean Reeves, used by permission
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The biggest crater known was from an asteroid that made the dinosaur killer look like a pebble
Phil Plait
Aug 26, 2020
Jupiter’s moon Ganymede, showing the dark and light terrains; the furrows can be seen to the upper right in the dark terrain. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Emily Lakdawalla
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No, two approaching near-Earth asteroids won’t hit us. 2020, cool your jets.
Phil Plait
Aug 24, 2020
Illustration of a near-Earth asteroid, created using actual space images of Earth and the asteroid Mathilde. Credit: Earth: ESA/Rosetta; asteroid Mathilde: NASA/NEAR
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Earth's asteroid impact rate took a sudden jump 290 million years ago
Phil Plait
Jul 27, 2020
Pierazzo crater, an impact site on the lunar far side, just over the edge of the Moon as seen from Earth. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University
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New study: The asteroid killed the dinosaurs, but volcanoes made things… better?
Phil Plait
Jun 30, 2020
Artwork depicting the last day of the dinosaurs, by the amazing Don Davis. Credit: Don Davis
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No, we're not in any danger from an asteroid passing Earth on Saturday night
Phil Plait
Jun 5, 2020
Illustration of a near-Earth asteroid, created using actual space images of Earth and the asteroid Mathilde. Credit: Earth: ESA/Rosetta; asteroid Mathilde: NASA/NEAR
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New simulation reveals how dino-killing asteroid smacked Earth at the perfect extinction angle
Jeff Spry
May 28, 2020
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Is our moon still rumbling from an ancient asteroid strike?
Jeff Spry
May 5, 2020
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Did a two-billion-year-old monster impact save the Earth from being a snowball?
Phil Plait
Jan 23, 2020
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Hey, maybe the dinosaur-killer asteroid really *did* act alone!
Phil Plait
Jan 21, 2020
Someone's about to have a VERY bad day. Credit: Shutterstock/Esteban De Armas
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