The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs left a massive buried crater off the Yucatan coast in Mexico. Known as the ...
Cosmic “touchdown airbursts” — explosions of comets or asteroids above Earth’s surface — may be far more common and ...
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Earth Hit by Invisible Space Explosions

Touchdown airbursts are a form of cosmic impact that may happen more often than the well-known, crater-forming events linked to mass extinctions ...
Sixty-six million years ago, a single asteroid hit Earth in the Yucatán Peninsula and killed off the dinosaurs. The disaster was local, but its effects were planetary. How can a regional calamity have ...
From underground rivers and cenotes to the impact site of the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs, Yucatán is a landscape shaped by both nature and history. Its forests, caves, and Mayan ruins come ...
Researchers announced over 70 new species in a single year, including bizarre insects, ancient dinosaurs, rare mammals, and ...
Octavio Peña is a writer and recipe developer living in San Jose, California. His work has appeared in KQED, Serious Eats, Food & Wine, Metro Silicon Valley, The Kitchn and more. Nestled under San ...