Odds of a city-killer asteroid hitting Earth just went up
Astronomers keeping a close eye on a near-Earth asteroid called 2024 YR4 have just raised the odds of an impact with our planet......
Astronomers keeping a close eye on a near-Earth asteroid called 2024 YR4 have just raised the odds of an impact with our planet......
A newly discovered asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, has a 1-in-83 chance of impacting Earth in eight years from now - on 22......
Phobos, the larger of Mars’ two moons, is slowly spiraling toward the Red Planet and is expected to meet a catastrophic......
Astronomers know that some stars hurtle through space at astonishing speeds, which are often attributed to natural gravitational......
The Parker Solar Probe – a spacecraft designed by the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) to withstand......
Half a century ago, the notion of shaking hands with aliens was treated as a joke - what if they were made of antimatter? A touch......
When stars near the end of life, they swell between 10 and 100 times their current size, engulfing the nearest planets in the......
Interstellar travel using current chemical rocket technology would require millions of years. However, advancements in genetics......
Radian Aerospace, a startup founded in 2016, is challenging the traditional concept of propulsion of rockets into space with an......
Using the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers has confirmed that supermassive black holes......
Planets floating within the habitable zone around red dwarfs have little chance to sustain life, because the far-ultraviolet......
Almost all meteorites – cosmic rocks that survive the travel through Earth’s atmosphere and hit the ground –......