Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Impact Set the World on Fire
Forest wildfires ignited thousands of kilometers from the impact zone of the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs, researchers have…
Forest wildfires ignited thousands of kilometers from the impact zone of the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs, researchers have…
Astronomers confirmed the first quadruple asteroid in history – this is Elektra from the Main Belt, which has now acquired…
The OSIRIS-REx mission has proven once again that when humankind sets out to do something and works hard towards that…
New research attributes the absence of debris from the asteroid that may have caused the large 1908 explosion over Tunguska…
A spacecraft from Japan visited an asteroid measuring approximately one kilometer in diameter called Ryugu (officially designated 162173 Ryugu). In…
The Japanese national Space Agency (JAXA) made its Hayabusa-2 spacecraft—in orbit around Ryugu—bomb the asteroid orbiting the sun at around…
Some 12,8000 years ago, when relatively developed ancient cultures already populated the Earth, our planet went through a kind of…
Asteroid Ryugu, formally identified as 162173 Ryugu, provisional designation 1999 JU3, is a potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo Group. The…
Exploring the solar system is a massive feat for humankind. But we are good at it. In fact, we seem…
Earth is thought to have been born due to repeated asteroid collisions, and Earth’s faithful satellite, the moon, is believed…
An ancient clay tablet housed at the British Museum has puzzled experts for more than 150 years. The Cuneiform tablet…
OSIRIS-REx Snaps Stunning Photo of Celestial Trio NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) mission has captured…
Technosignatures: Clues to Alien Life When it comes to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), it’s not enough to aim…
Placental mammals, an evolutionary group including human ancestors, dogs, and bats, are now confirmed to have walked the Earth alongside…
Pterosaurs, the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight, ruled the Mesozoic skies long before birds took to the air. They…
Are we alone in the universe? What are the odds that Earth is the only world where life sprung into…
Stephen Hawking is my favorite person of all time, mainly because he was a survivor. He had no reason to…
One of the closest stars we can possibly study is the sun. Since 2008, NASA has had two spacecraft in…
We call Mars the red planet. However, Mars used to be blue and covered with water, leading us closer to…
Mars, the red planet, the reddish star in Earth’s night sky, is full of surprises. The more we explore it,…
A NASA space observatory has created a time-lapse video revealing changes to the sky over the course of a decade….
For exploring the universe, its distant galaxies, stars, planetary nebula, and now even black holes, humankind has at its disposal…