Astronomers Scan Interstellar Comet 2l/Borisov Making Unexpected Discovery
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Last year, our Solar System received an interstellar visitor: an object designated 2I/Borisov. By pointing the Atacama Large Millimeter /…
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C/2019 Y4 Atlas: The Comet That Witnessed The Creation of the Pyramids Breaks Up Into Several Pieces
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Comet C/2019 Y4 Atlas, discovered December 28, 2019, on a trajectory approaching the Sun, has disintegrated into several fragments, with evident…
The Return of ATLAS, The Comet That “Witnessed” The Construction of the Pyramids
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There’s a comet heading our way. It is not going to impact Earth and will past millions of kilometers away…
Interstellar Comet 14 Times the Size of Earth Explodes and Breaks Up in Two
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A comet 14 times the size of Earth (including its coma and tail) which originated in a solar system far…
A Comet “Half The Size of The Sun” Set to Zoom Past Earth Later This Month
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Comet ATLAS, whose Coma is around 15 arcminutes in diameter, falls somewhere between the Sun (1,392,000 km diameter) and Jupiter…
Newly Discovered Comet—Atlas—is Getting Extremely Bright as it Heads Our Way
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There’s a comet heading our way—not it won’t crash into Earth—and astronomers are getting excited because, as it makes it…
A Comet Impact 13,000 Years Ago May Have Reset Ancient Civilizations
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Some 13,000 years ago, a massive comet fragmented and impacted Earth, changing a planet in more ways than one. The…
Gobekli Tepe Symbols Reveal A Comet Bombarded Earth Around 13,000 Years Ago
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One of the most enigmatic and mysterious temples on the planet’s surface is located in modern-day Turkey. The site, identified…
Scientific Evidence Suggests a Comet set “Earth on Fire” 13,000 Years Ago
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It was an unprecedented, catastrophic global event that left huge marks on the planet and civilization. Scientists have uncovered paleontological…
Distant Exoplanets Contain Rocks Alien to Our Solar System
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The chemical composition of rocky exoplanets is likely more diverse than previously thought. Astronomers were prompted to this conclusion by…
Want to Help Identify Alien Planets in Deep Space? Here’s Your Chance
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With dozens of ground and space-based observatories, astronomers cannot cope with the accumulation of data that is being collected each…
Another Mystery Object Just Crashed Into Jupiter
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Astronomers captured two flashes on Jupiter in just over a month Who announced it? Тhe first to announce the unusual…
Study Suggests Undiscovered Mars-Sized Planet In Our Solar System
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A team of cosmologists presented a new study based on the results of computer simulations of the process of creating…
Astronomers Spot Hundreds of Previously Unknown Objects in the Solar System
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An international team of astronomers, using data from the Dark Energy Survey, has compiled a new catalog of objects in…
10 Reasons Why Göbekli Tepe is a Lost Civilization and Not an Ancient Monument
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There is enough evidence to suggest that Göbekli Tepe was not just an ancient site, but the remnant of a long-lost ancient civilization absent from history.
Solar System’s Oort Cloud Repository for Interstellar Objects
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Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard and Smithsonian Institutions (CfA) present new calculations showing that the Oort Cloud…
Scientists Find Our Solar System’s Fastest Moving Object
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Astronomers have discovered the fastest asteroid in the Solar System. Object 2021 PH27 has the new shortest orbital period around…
Martian Moons Could Hold Clues to Life on Red Planet
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Scientists Ryuki Hedo and Tomohiro Usui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have published a promising paper, in which…
The Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight
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Each year in August, stargazers in the Northern Hemisphere get the chance to observe one of the most fascinating meteor showers – the Perseids. Perhaps you already got your chance to see some shooting stars since the beginning of the astronomical event in July but if not… tonight will be the best chance to spot some falling meteorites.
Harvard’s Chair of Astronomy is Leading a Team to Search For UFOs and Alien Tech
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Avi Loeb is the most dedicated supporter of the theory that the interstellar object Oumuamua was alien technology. The professor is now launching a new initiative called the Galileo Project that will search for similar objects in space.
Using Satellites To Save Earth From a Cataclysmic Asteroid Impact
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On International Asteroid Day, which is celebrated annually on June 30, the UN draws attention to the need to protect…
Ancient Earth Was Bombarded By Cataclysmic “City-Sized” Asteroids
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Scientists have found that the possibility to breathe “with a full chest filled with oxygen” became appeared about 2.5 billion years ago and was caused by the impacts of city-sized asteroids.