This coming May 31, an asteroid said to be roughly 9 times the size of Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship is expected to fly by our planet.
Scientists working with NASA wish to stress that, regardless of its impressive size, the space rock does not constitute a threat to either our planet or the moon.
This i... [read more >>] It seems that the coolant leak problem at the International Space Station is serious enough to warrant no further delay in fixing, so two astronauts are now preparing for an unscheduled spacewalk to try to fix it.
The spacewalk will be held tomorrow, and US astronauts Tom Mashburn and Chris Cassidy will ve... [read more >>] 9-year-old Michael Puzio from North Carolina has just become the first kid to name a space rock. The name he chose for the asteroid, i.e. Bennu (pronounced ben-oo) used to belong to an Egyptian god more often than not depicted by a gray heron.
The asteroid named by Michael Puzio is set to receive a visit ... [read more >>] Thanks to the Cassini spacecraft, NASA scientists got the chance to gaze upon a giant storm that has been swirling around Saturn's north pole for years. The storm very much resembles a hurricane, whose eye measures a whopping 1,250 miles (roughly 2,000 kilometers) in diameter. The eye appears to have... [read more >>] A galaxy that produces the equivalent of 3,000 Suns on a yearly basis has recently been discovered by astronomers.
Shortly after having been pinned down, the galaxy has been dubbed the Universe's most prolific star factory.
The galaxy's official name is HFLS3. When comparing it to our Milky Wa... [read more >>] Dark matter is accepted as fact these days, but we haven't been able to observe it directly, since its very nature makes it unobservable. We have seen its effects on the universe though and we know that it's a huge chunk, more than a quarter, of what the universe is made up of. But we're now... [read more >>] This past Friday evening, around 7:50 p.m., a meteor flew over the US East Coast. Due to the meteor's putting on quite a show, millions got the chance to become aware of its presence and take one good look at it as it passed through the sky.
By the looks of it, the meteor was spotted by millions of p... [read more >>] The European Space Agency has released the first results of its Plank mission which set out to map the universe as it was in its infancy. After 15 months of observations by the Plank instrument in space, the data is already changing the way we understand the universe. There aren't any huge revelations... [read more >>] NASA's Curiosity rover has found conditions very favorable to life on Mars, its analysis of rock samples led it to discover that, when the planet was wet, at least at its location, the conditions were perfect for bacterial life.
Curiosity's internal laboratory found sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, ox... [read more >>] There's no doubt in most scientists' minds that Mars had liquid water on its surface. Not only that, it had huge rivers, lakes or even oceans. And, as it turns out, even massive floods.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been circling our red neighbor for a few years now, taking photos,... [read more >>] |
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