Sixty-six million years ago, a 6 mile wide asteroid slammed into Earth and erased more than 75% of life on Earth in a geological instant. The catastrophe that ended the age of Tyrannosaurus and ...
The Chicxulub impact didn’t just kill the dinosaurs — it rewrote Earth’s future . A decade-long impact winter collapsed the food chain, poisoned the atmosphere, and wiped out 70% of species. And the ...
Of the solar system’s planets, Saturn piques the human imagination with its signature rings and impressive moon count of 274.
The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.