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The Mammoth's Lament: How Cosmic Impact Sparked Devastating Climate Change
Researchers have found
evidence of a major cosmic
event near the end of the
Ice Age. The ensuing climate
change forced many species
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Asteroid 1998 QE2 to Sail Past Earth Is Nine Times Larger Than Cruise Ship
On May 31, 2013, asteroid
1998 QE2 will sail serenely
past Earth, getting no
closer than about 3.6
million miles (5.8 million
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New Craters Abound: Mars Camera Reveals Hundreds of Impacts Each Year
Taking before and after
pictures of the Martian
terrain, researchers have
identified nearly 250 fresh
impact craters on the Red
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Moon and Earth Have Common Water Source
New research finds that
water inside the moon's
mantle comes from the same
source as water on Earth.
The Moon is thought to have
formed after a giant impact
to a still-forming Earth 4.5
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Wind, Not Water, Formed Mound on Mars, New Analysis Suggests
May 6, 2013 — Researchers suggest that Mars' roughly 3.5-mile high Mount Sharp most likely emerged as strong winds carried dust and sand into Gale Crater where the mound sits. If correct, the research could dilute ... > full story -
Studying Meteorites May Reveal Mars' Secrets of Life
May 1, 2013 — In an effort to determine if conditions were ever right on Mars to sustain life, a team of scientists has examined a meteorite that formed on the Red Planet more than a billion years ... > full story -
Hubble Captures Comet ISON
April 23, 2013 — When the Hubble picture of ISON was taken on April 10, the comet was slightly closer than Jupiter's orbit at a distance of 386 million miles from the Sun. Hubble photographed a jet blasting dust ... > full story -
Jupiter's Atmosphere Still Contains Water Supplied by the Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet Impact
April 23, 2013 — Researchers are reporting Herschel observations of water in Jupiter's stratosphere. It is a clear remnant of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet impact on Jupiter nearly 20 years ... > full story -
How to Target an Asteroid
April 17, 2013 — Like many of his colleagues at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., Shyam Bhaskaran is working a lot with asteroids these days. And also like many of his colleagues, the deep space ... > full story -
NASA-Funded Asteroid Tracking Sensor Passes Key Test
April 15, 2013 — An infrared sensor that could improve NASA's future detecting and tracking of asteroids and comets has passed a critical design ... > full story -
Update: Comet to Make Close Flyby of Red Planet in October 2014
April 15, 2013 — New observations of comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) have allowed NASA's Near-Earth Object Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. to further refine the comet's ... > full story -
NASA's Asteroid Initiative: Robotically Capture Small Near-Earth Asteroid and Explore It
April 11, 2013 — NASA's FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system where astronauts can visit and ... > full story -
A Comet, Not an Asteroid, May Have Killed the Dinosaurs, Experts Propose
April 4, 2013 — In a geological moment about 66 million years ago, something killed off almost all the dinosaurs and some 70 percent of all other species living on Earth. Only those dinosaurs related to birds appear ... > full story -
Origin of Life: Power Behind Primordial Soup Discovered
April 4, 2013 — Researchers may have solved a key puzzle about how objects from space could have kindled life on ... > full story
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