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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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UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT SEEN NEAR SOUTHSIDE HILLS IN ST. JOHN'S
- Andrew Wilkins, eyewitness A camera near the waterfront captured the moment the light streaked down over the harbour sky... READ MORE›
IN TRUMP'S AMERICA, 'PIZZAGATE' COULD BE THE NEW NORMAL
Comet Ping Pong customers came out to support the restaurant after a gunman entered it with an assault rifle, firing it at least once... 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›
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›
ARCTIC FINLAND: BLAZING FIREBALL LIGHTS UP ARCTIC SKY
Amateur astronomers in the Arctic then saw about 1,000 meteors, 40 meteorites and one fireball in just one night... 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›
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›
WHY DOES THE PERSEID METEOR SHOWER HAPPEN EVERY YEAR?
Cloud and rain are expected to make viewing the annual Perseid meteor shower disappointing in the south of the UK... 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›
LIFE ON EARTH BEGAN WITH COMETS, SCIENTISTS SAY AS NEW RESEARCH EMERGES
It also opens the likelihood that we will have seen similar chemical evolution in other extraterrestrial bodies, starting with cometary derived peptides... 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›
THE SPECTACULAR PERSEID METEOR SHOWER LIGHTS UP THE NIGHT SKY
Weather Watcher Badge Weather Watchers consistently offer thought-provoking, timely comments on climates and forecasts... 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›
LUCKILY IN SUN'S SHADE, LANDER CATCHING GLIMPSES OF HEATING COMET'S DISCHARGES
The European Space Agency reported this week that one of the comet's outbursts was so dramatic that it pushed away the incoming power of the sun... READ MORE›
KILLER ASTEROIDS ARE COMING. CAN WE STOP THEM IN TIME?
A much bigger concern is the whereabouts of millions of asteroids in the range of 15 to 140 meters 49 to 460 feet ... READ MORE›
COMET LANDING: ROSETTA SPACECRAFT RELEASES ON-BOARD LANDER PHILAE
Touchdown sequence Philae landing's speed will be about one metre per second... READ MORE›
WASHINGTON PIZZERIA ATTACK SPOTLIGHTS FAKE NEWS THREATS AND BIG NAMES WHO ABET THEM
What happened today demonstrates that promoting false and reckless conspiracy theories comes with consequences, Comet owner James Alefantis said in a statement Sunday... 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›
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›
PROBE PHILAE WAKES UP ON SPEEDING COMET, TWEETS 'HELLO EARTH!'
Philae touched down on the comet on Nov. 12 after an epic 10-year trek piggybacking on Rosetta... READ MORE›
ROSETTA MISSION: WHEN WILL IT END AND WHY WILL IT CRASH INTO A COMET?A
There are billions of comets in our Solar System, which are typically located in one of two regions... READ MORE›
COMET SINKHOLES BIG ENOUGH TO SWALLOW GREAT PYRAMID
The comet being studied by Europe's Rosetta spacecraft has massive sinkholes in its surface that are nearly wide enough to swallow Egypt's Great Pyramid of... READ MORE›
EUROPE REGAINS CONTACT WITH COMET ORBITER ROSETTA AFTER 'DRAMATIC' SILENCE
Europe's trailblazing spacecraft Rosetta has resumed its mission to probe a comet hurtling through the solar system after a dramatic weekend in which con... READ MORE›
DUTCH SCIENTISTS FETE RARE METEORITE FIND
The Leiden center unveiled the meteorite on Monday, after carrying out extensive tests... READ MORE›
PROBE BEGINS DRILLING INTO COMET
But two harpoons that should have anchored the washing machine-sized Philae to the surface did not properly deploy when it hit the comet... READ MORE›
PHILAE LANDER STILL STABLE DESPITE FAILURE TO LATCH ON PROPERLY TO ROCKY TERRAIN
Gravity on the comet is 1 100,000th that of Earth, meaning the washing machine-sized lander weighs just 1 gram 0... READ MORE›
COMET 67P ROBOT LAB PHILAE'S ALIEN HOST NEARS SUN
Rosetta deposited washing machine-sized Philae on the comet on November 12 last year after a 10-year, seven-billion-kilometre trek... READ MORE›
SCIENTISTS RACING THE CLOCK IN ATTEMPT TO WAKE UP PHILAE COMET LANDER
Philae has found several organic molecules, including four never before detected on a comet... READ MORE›