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A Fossil Fruit Shows Ancestors Of Coffee And Potatoes Survived The Cretaceous Extinction

Fossils & Paleontology

A Fossil Fruit Shows Ancestors Of Coffee And Potatoes Survived The Cretaceous Extinction

Modeling The Formation Of Selk Impact Crater On Titan: Implications For Dragonfly

Titan

Modeling The Formation Of Selk Impact Crater On Titan: Implications For Dragonfly

About The Loss Of A Primordial Atmosphere Of Super-Earths By Planetesimal Impacts

Impact events

About The Loss Of A Primordial Atmosphere Of Super-Earths By Planetesimal Impacts

New Signatures of Bio-Molecular Complexity in the Hypervelocity Impact Ejecta of Icy Moon Analogues

Icy Worlds

New Signatures of Bio-Molecular Complexity in the Hypervelocity Impact Ejecta of Icy Moon Analogues

Discovery Of Sunscreen-like Chemicals In Fossil Plants Reveals UV Radiation Played A Part In Mass Extinction Events

Extinction events

Discovery Of Sunscreen-like Chemicals In Fossil Plants Reveals UV Radiation Played A Part In Mass Extinction Events

Dinosaurs Were On The Up Before Asteroid Downfall

Impact events

Dinosaurs Were On The Up Before Asteroid Downfall

The Effect Of Collisional Erosion On The Composition Of Earth-analog Planets In Grand Tack models: Implications For The Formation Of The Earth

Astrogeology

The Effect Of Collisional Erosion On The Composition Of Earth-analog Planets In Grand Tack models: Implications For The Formation Of The Earth

Simulation Of The Global Impact Of the Dinosaur-Killing Chicxulub Asteroid Impact Event

Extinction events

Simulation Of The Global Impact Of the Dinosaur-Killing Chicxulub Asteroid Impact Event

Reduced Late Bombardment On Rocky Exoplanets Around M-dwarfs

Impact events

Reduced Late Bombardment On Rocky Exoplanets Around M-dwarfs

What Killed Dinosaurs And Other Life On Earth?

Extinction events

What Killed Dinosaurs And Other Life On Earth?

Death From Space

Impact events

Death From Space

Study Finds Evidence That Giant Meteorite Impacts Created The Continents

Extinction events

Study Finds Evidence That Giant Meteorite Impacts Created The Continents

An Asteroid Impact Crater Beneath The North Atlantic Ocean – And The Demise Of Dinosaurs

Extinction events

An Asteroid Impact Crater Beneath The North Atlantic Ocean – And The Demise Of Dinosaurs

Reduced Atmospheres Of Post-impact Worlds: The Early Earth

Impact events

Reduced Atmospheres Of Post-impact Worlds: The Early Earth

The Impact Of Extinction

Impact events

The Impact Of Extinction

Large Impacts Onto The Early Earth: Planetary Sterilization And Iron Delivery

Impact events

Large Impacts Onto The Early Earth: Planetary Sterilization And Iron Delivery

SwRI-led Team Produces A New Earth Bombardment Model

Impact events

SwRI-led Team Produces A New Earth Bombardment Model

Extreme Volcanism Did Not Cause The Late Cretaceous Massive Extinction

Impact events

Extreme Volcanism Did Not Cause The Late Cretaceous Massive Extinction

Zeroing In On the Source Of The Impactor That Wiped Out The Dinosaurs

Impact events

Zeroing In On the Source Of The Impactor That Wiped Out The Dinosaurs