Osiris-Rex mission on course for asteroid sample collection0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 22, 2020
Nasa spacecraft makes final preparations to gather material from Bennu’s surface in October
Nasa spacecraft makes final preparations to gather material from Bennu’s surface in October
Ivan Vagner, a Russian cosmonaut currently orbiting the Earth aboard the International Space Station (ISS), claims to have captured footage of potential UFOs while recording video of the southern lights.
New images from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory show small knots of metal-rich debris in the remnant of Kepler’s supernova, also known as SN 1604, are moving up to 37 million km per hour (23 million mph). These are extremely high speeds for an explosion that happened over 400 years ago as seen from Earth.
Discovery from Middle Triassic sheds new light on ocean predators millions of years ago
Aliens? Or a chunk of solid hydrogen? Which idea makes less sense?
The process won’t be complete until 2063
Take that, asteroid 2020 QG!
The act could even reveal how to look for life on alien planets.
According to a new study published this week by researchers at the University of Illinois, a nearby star’s supernova may’ve caused one of out planets mass extinctions millions of years ago.
Astronomers have determined the cause of the dramatic dimming observed last year and earlier this year of one of the brightest stars in the night sky, a colossus called Betelgeuse that appears to be on its way toward a violent death.