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A shower of asteroid fragments on Earth. Image: depositphotos.com

A large impact crater under the North Atlantic Ocean reveals - the deadly asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was not alone

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A large impact crater under the North Atlantic Ocean reveals - the deadly asteroid was not alone
Asteroid shower on the Earth-Moon system (artist's rendering). Credit: /Murayama, Osaka University

A massive asteroid shower hit the Earth-Moon system 800 million years ago

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Asteroid impact on Earth. Image: NASA

The asteroid that collided with the Earth 466 million years ago actually strengthened life

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This artist's illustration shows what happened immediately after a large asteroid impact around NGC 2,547-ID8, a 35-million-year-old Sun-like star that is beginning to form rocky planets. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The Spitzer Space Telescope observed the results of an asteroid collision in another solar system

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The asteroid P/2013 R3 after its disintegration. Photo: Hubble Space Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope recorded for the first time the disintegration of an asteroid into at least ten different pieces

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