Distant space collision meant doom for dinosaurs
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A collision 160 million years ago of  two asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter sent many big  rock chunks hurtling toward Earth, including the one that  zapped the dinosaurs, scientists said on Wednesday.
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NASA is on a collision course with a comet, and scientists say they can&#39;t wait to see what happens. The collision, which is to take place between a projectile fired from the space agency&#39;s Deep Impact spacecraft
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Earth is about to gets its closest brush this century with a massive asteroid, a hurtling space rock astronomers say is big enough to cause global devastation if it were to collide with the planet.
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An expedition of Russian researchers claims to have found evidence that an    alien spaceship had something to do with a huge explosion over Siberia in 1908.    Experts in asteroids and comets have long said the massive blast was caused    by a space rock.
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The NASA spacecraft that smashed into the Utah desert last month while bringing home fragile samples of the sun may have been doomed by engineering drawings that had been done backwards, an investigating board said Friday.
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Science & environment: Dinosaurs may have been pushed towards extinction by humble insects, not meteorites
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One of the most innovative missions in space exploration has come to a dramatic close as Europe's first probe to the Moon crashed into the lunar surface giving stargazers around the world an astronomical fireworks display.
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It sounds like the plot for a scary B-movie: Germs go into space on a rocket and come back stronger and deadlier than ever. Except, it really happened
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Scientists working off the Yucatan Peninsula are preparing to use sound waves to search for information about an asteroid that may have wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
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Since 1994 when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter, scientists have been researching if it may be possible to deflect incoming asteroids.
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Fossilized dinosaurs often have wide-open mouths, heads thrown back and tails that curve toward the head. Paleontologists have long assumed the dinosaurs died in water and the currents drifted the bones into that position, or that rigor mortis or drying muscles, tendons and ligaments contorted the limbs.  &quot;I&#39;m reading this in the literature and thinking, &#39;This doesn&#39;t make any sense to me as a veterinarian,&#39;&quot; said Cynthia Marshall Faux, a veterinarian-turned-paleontologist at the Museum of the Rockies. ...
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Science & environment: Fearsome dinosaur made famous in the Jurassic Park films probably more closely resembled a big turkey, scientists have discovered.
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Bad news for the NASA Administrator - the Space Shuttle has blown up again. But this time the cause is not foam-fretted tiles, it&#39;s alien hitch-hikers. That&#39;s right: aggressive extraterrestrials have bummed a rocket ride to Earth to take over our planet. It&#39;s a familiar theme, indeed, but there&#39;s a silver lining to this interstellar cloud: the invaders are doing it for your own good.
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At least 50 percent of the world's species, including the dinosaurs, went extinct 65 million years ago. While most scientists now blame this catastrophe on a large meteorite impact, others wonder if there is more to the story.
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A MASSIVE asteroid heading for Earth has a 1-in-300 chance of smashing into the planet in 2029, say boffins. The space rock is believed to be more than 1,300ft long and was only rediscovered
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Scientific curiosity is going to cause a minor collision in space. On January 12, 2004, NASA is scheduled to launch a spacecraft named Deep Impact.
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The possibility of a collision between Mars and an approaching asteroid has been effectively ruled out, according to scientists watching the space rock