A large asteroid near Earth, which is predicted to approach the planet on Saturday, Feb. 15, is set one kilometer apart. An area rock of this size is estimated to kill millions in the region in just one stroke. The expected phenomenon would trigger a disaster on a global scale.
A new probe built by NASA and the European Space Agency set off on a blazing hot journey to the sun on Sunday to take the first close-up look at the star’s polar regions, a mission expected to yield insight into how solar radiant energy affects Earth.
Four proposals were selected to move to the next stage of NASA’s Discovery Program
The future of space exploration might be through tiny satellites that can fit in the palm of your hand.
Traces of unknown ancestor emerged when researchers analysed genomes from west African populations
Last night, ESA’s Planetary Defence team observed the rare moment in which an object escaped our planet’s gravity, in contrast to their normal objects of study—potentially hazardous rocks that could strike it.
The majority of stars in the universe will become luminous enough to blast surrounding asteroids into successively smaller fragments using their light alone, according to a University of Warwick astronomer
Researchers can now analyze precious samples of lunar rock atom by atom
Scientists have discovered an asteroid with such a strange surface that they have named it the “golf ball”.
Four thousand years ago, the last woolly mammoths quietly died on their final bastion – the isolated Wrangel Island, north of Russia in the frozen Arctic. Their demise was sudden, and strange; now, new evidence points to the mammoths themselves as partial agents of their own demise.
