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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›
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›
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›
EARTH-SIZE PLANET ONLY 11 LIGHT YEARS AWAY ORBITS ITS COOL STAR IN 10 DAYS, HAS HABITABLE TEMPERATURE
At a distance of 11 light-years, Ross 128 b is the second-closest planet to be detected yet outside our solar system with surface temperatures potentially similar to ours... 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›
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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›
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›
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›
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›
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›
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›
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'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›
'HELLO EARTH!' SPACE PROBE, THOUGHT LOST, COMES TO LIFE ON COMET
Scientists hope that samples drilled from the roughly 3-by-5 km comet by Philae will unlock details about how the planets... READ MORE›
MARS MAKES A 'CLOSE APPROACH' TO EARTH TONIGHT
Monday's close approach comes on the heels of the Mars opposition on May 22, when the planet and sun were on directly opposite sides of the Earth... READ MORE›
COMET'S APPEARANCE COULD MEAN PRESENCE OF ALIEN MICROBES
PARIS - Astronomers proposed a novel explanation Monday for the strange appearance of the comet carrying Europe's robot probe Philae through outer space alien microscopic life... READ MORE›
NASA SCOPE SPOTS CLOSEST MATCH YET TO EARTH-SUN TWIN SYSTEM
That close-to-Earth-size planet, Kepler-186f, also was in the habitable zone of its star... READ MORE›
CLOCKED AT 126,000 KPH, STADIUM-SIZE ASTEROID TO SHAVE PAST EARTH, MOON ON HALLOWEEN
Clocked at 126 000 kph stadium-size asteroid to shave past earth moon on halloween... READ MORE›
'GODZILLA' SOLAR SYSTEM DWARFS OUR OWN
But the new planet would not have formed in the same way as our solar system did, from a large disc of dust and gas... READ MORE›
NASA SHINES LIGHT ON 'PITCH BLACK' PLANET, A SCORCHING HOT WORLD
The low albedo shows we still have a lot to learn about WASP-12b and other similar exoplanets, Bell said... READ MORE›
FORGET STAR WARS. THIS IS HOW NASA WOULD BUILD A DEATH STAR
Brian Muirhead, who works as a chief engineer at the space agency, said the super-weapon featured in Star Wars could be created from an asteroid... READ MORE›
PLUTO MAY HAVE HAD LAKES, RIVERS ONCE, 'SHOCKED' NASA SCIENTISTS SAY
NASA scientists revealed Monday there could've been flowing liquid once on the dwarf planet... READ MORE›
COMET LOVEJOY CONTAINS ALCOHOL, SUGAR, SURPRISING SCIENTISTS
Comet Lovejoy is of particular interest to scientists because it is one of the most active comets in Earth's orbital neighborhood, said the study... READ MORE›
ASTRONOMERS SEE PLANET STILL GROWING IN ITS STELLAR WOMB
The discovery also demonstrates a technique to find other baby planets by searching for the telltale hydrogen gas emissions... READ MORE›
ROSETTA PROBE ADVANCED OUR KNOWLEDGE OF SOLAR SYSTEM, NOW WILL SPEND ETERNITY WITH COMET
It implied that magnetism played no part in debris in the early solar system clumping together to form planets, comets, asteroids and moons... READ MORE›
HYPOTHETICAL PLANET NINE MAY BE A ROGUE WORLD CAPTURED BY THE SUN, RESEARCHERS SAY
In order to reach their conclusions, Vesper and Mason ran 156 simulations of possible encounters between our sun and rogue planets... READ MORE›
WHAT IF E.T. PHONED EARTH? NEW STUDY SUGGESTS BEST WAY TO HEAR THE CALL
The transit method has been very successful for us on Earth in the search for extra-solar planets... READ MORE›