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NASA'S TESS SPACECRAFT EMBARKS ON QUEST TO FIND NEW PLANETS
Most of Tess' targets will be cool, common red dwarf stars, thought to be rich breeding grounds for planets... READ MORE›
TESS -- NASA'S NEW PLANET-HUNTER -- TO SEEK CLOSER, EARTH-LIKE WORLDS
Calling all planets that orbit around bright, nearby stars NASA's new Tess spacecraft is looking to do a head count. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satel... READ MORE›
'MISSION FOR THE AGES': NASA TESS SPACECRAFT TO PROWL FOR PLANETS AS GALACTIC SCOUT
Set to lift off early next week, the Tess spacecraft will prowl for planets around the closest, brightest stars... READ MORE›
CHINA SAYS SPACE STATION RE-ENTERS ATMOSPHERE OVER SOUTH PACIFIC
China's 9.4 tonne Tiangong-1 space station has re-entered the Earth's atmosphere over the South Pacific and mostly burnt up on re-entry, the state news agency Xinhua says... READ MORE›
NASA'S TESS PROBE TO RESUME SEARCH FOR PLANETS ORBITING STARS BEYOND OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
Latham said fewer than 10 rocky, Earth- or super-Earth-sized planets have previously been confirmed, and NASA hopes to double or triple that number through the TESS mission... READ MORE›
HOW CHINA LOST CONTROL OF ITS SPACE STATION TIANGONG-1 AND DOESNT KNOW WHERE IT WILL CRASHA
The European Space Agency ESA puts the probability of a person being struck by space debris at one in 1.2 trillion... READ MORE›
AVOID THE END OF THE WORLD BY WATCHING THE SKY
NEOCam will furthermore help us study the origin of the solar system and enable asteroid exploration and exploitation... READ MORE›
COSMIC CATASTROPHES ARE ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO PREVENT BUT YOU SHOULDN'T FEAR DEATH FROM SPACE
DART is a NASA mission now in the preliminary design phase that will redirect a small asteroid moon around Didymos by simply hitting it... READ MORE›
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HUMANS CAUSING CLIMATE TO CHANGE 170 TIMES FASTER THAN NATURAL FORCES
Human activities now rival the great forces of nature in driving changes to the Earth system, the paper said... READ MORE›
THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT IS ABOUT TO END -- AGAIN -- IF YOU BELIEVE THIS BIBLICAL DOOMSDAY CLAIM
Its gravity would've messed up the orbits of the inner planets, the Earth, Venus, Mars, probably would've stripped the moon away completely, he said... READ MORE›
POTENTIALLY HABITABLE WORLD FOUND JUST 11 LIGHT YEARS AWAY
It shows that Ross 128 b is more massive than the Earth, with at least 1.35 times our planet's bulk... READ MORE›
MASSIVE ICE SHELFT CLOSER TO SPLITTING FROM ANTARCTICA
Larsen C is a portion of the greater Larsen Ice Shelf on the northeastern coast of Antarctica... READ MORE›
NEW PLANET DISCOVERED BY 15-YEAR-OLD INTERN
A 15-year-old intern in England has discovered a new planet, the same size as Jupiter, while carrying out work experience at a university... READ MORE›
EUROPEAN SPACECRAFT CASTS OFF ON DESCENT TO COMET
European Space Agency said Wednesday that the landing craft separated from Rosetta probe for descent to comet 67P... READ MORE›
PHILAE COMET LANDER WAKES UP AFTER 7-MONTH HIBERNATION
The comet lander Philae surprised scientists when it suddenly woke up and contacted Earth after a seven-month hibernation the European Space Agency announced Sunday... READ MORE›
EARTH-LIKE WORLD COULD BE 'MOST IMPORTANT PLANET FOUND OUTSIDE SOLAR SYSTEM'
A rocky Earth-sized planet that circles a small, nearby star could be the most important world ever found beyond the solar system, astronomers say... READ MORE›
NEARBY EARTH-LIKE PLANET COULD SUPPORT ALIEN LIFE
Ross 128 b is the second-closest planet to be detected outside the solar system with surface temperatures potentially similar to planet Earth... READ MORE›
GEMINIDS: MOST SPECTACULAR METEOR SHOWER IN THE WORLD HEADS OVER UK THIS WEEKEND
The Geminids are different from other meteor showers because they come from an asteroid, rather than a comet... READ MORE›
EXPLODING STAR'S SHOCKWAVE WITNESSED
Jupiter's icy moon Europa may be the best place in the solar system to look for extraterrestrial life, according to NASA... READ MORE›
PROBE SENDS BACK FIRST IMAGE FROM COMET'S SURFACE
Probe sends back first image from comet's surface European Space Agency says Philae lander still stable despite not latching on to comet... READ MORE›
MYSTERY OBJECT SLAMS INTO JUPITER
Videos emerged this week of an object apparently hitting Jupiter... READ MORE›
PLANETARY DEFENSE OFFICE TO SAVE EARTH
Rocky asteroids vary in size and are mainly found orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter... READ MORE›
15-YEAR-OLD DISCOVERS NEW PLANET ON WORK EXPERIENCE
Keele University described Wagg's discovery as a hot Jupiter'' planet that tend to maintain tight orbits around its stars... READ MORE›
EUROPE'S ROSETTA PROBE LANDS ON COMET AFTER 12 YEARS
The European Space Agency ESA has completed its Rosetta space probe mission with a landing on a comet 720 million km away, according to mission control... READ MORE›
NASA SCIENTIST DEBUNKS DOOMSDAY RUMOURS OVER MYSTERIOUS PLANET NIBIRU
According to popular imagination, Nibiru, or Planet X, is a hypothetical planet on the edge of the solar system that orbits the sun every 3,600 years... READ MORE›
COMET LANDER PHILAE CONNECTION LOST AFTER DOWNLOAD
10 illustration provided by the European Space Agency shows the Rosetta probe, left, and Philae lander above the 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet... READ MORE›
WHY DID PLUTO GET KICKED OUT OF THE PLANET CLUB?
When Nasa's New Horizons mission was launched at the start of 2006 Pluto was a planet but it's not any more... READ MORE›
A 'MINI ICE AGE' IS JUST 15 YEARS AWAY AS SCIENTISTS PREDICT DROP IN SOLAR ACTIVITY
The Earth could be plunged into a 'mini ice age' in just 15 years from now according to new research which looks at the Sun's activity cycle... READ MORE›
ROSETTA MISSION: WHAT IS IT AND WHEN WILL IT CRASH INTO A COMET?
There are billions of comets in our Solar System, which are typically located in one of two regions... READ MORE›
HUBBLE CAPTURES COMET'S CLOSE EARTH ENCOUNTER
One of the closest encounters between a comet and Earth has been captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA says... READ MORE›
THIS IS WHAT THE SPEED OF LIGHT FEELS LIKE
While the speed of light might seem fast from the surface of the Earth, in the black never-ending vastness of space, it's actually quite slow... READ MORE›
NASA REVEALS 2 FINALISTS FOR MISSIONS TO DISTANT WORLDS
While that mission had a lander, Philae, it was not a sample-return mission... READ MORE›
NASA'S NEW CLIMATE MODEL OF ANCIENT VENUS SHOWS A PICTURE OF A HABITABLE WORLD
Such temperature would have made Venus, surprisingly for a planet closer to the Sun, a bit chillier than Earth was at the time... READ MORE›
EARTH HAD ASTEROID NEAR-MISS LAST WEEK
Surprised scientists breathe a sigh of relief just as NASA prepares to launch its probe to Bennu, a space rock that regularly comes close to earth... READ MORE›
NIBIRU CONSPIRACY THEORIST DAVID MEADE ACTUALLY DOESN'T KNOW WHEN WORLD WILL END
Nibiru conspiracy theorist David Meade actually doesn't know when the world will end, several reports have claimed... READ MORE›
EARTH-SIZED PLANETS FOUND ORBITING AN ANCIENT STAR SYSTEM
A team of astronomers worldwide, including Dr Huber, discovered the planets... READ MORE›
'WE CONQUERED JUPITER:' NASA'S JUNO SPACECRAFT ENTERS INTO ORBIT AFTER FIVE-YEAR JOURNEY
PASADENA, CALIF.--Soaring over Jupiter's poles, a NASA spacecraft arrived at the solar system's largest planet on a mission to peek behind the cloud tops... READ MORE›
PHILAE SCIENTIST WE LL SEE NEW THINGS
The European Space Agency's senior scientific advisor Prof Mark McCaughrean says Philae will help scientists learn more about comets... READ MORE›