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SCIENTISTS SAY THEY'VE DISCOVERED THE FIRST PLANETS OUTSIDE THE MILKY WAY
Xinyu Dai, an astrophysicist and professor at the University of Oklahoma, detected, for the first time ever, a population of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy... READ MORE›
WHAT HOPE DO PLANETS OUTSIDE OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM OFFER FOR THOSE FACING THE END OF THE WORLD?
It's true that the fastest rocket to date would take around 70,000 years to reach even our nearest neighbour Proxima Centauri... 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›
U.S. SUCCEEDS IN INITIAL NEVADA TESTS OF NUCLEAR POWER SYSTEM TO SUSTAIN ASTRONAUTS ON MARS
Initial tests in Nevada on a compact nuclear power system designed to sustain a long-duration NASA human mission on the inhospitable surface of Mars have b... READ MORE›
6 TYPES OF PLANETS, FROM GAS GIANTS TO WATER WORLDS
The category of rocky planets, also known as terrestrial planets, includes Earth, as well as Mercury, Venus and Mars in our own solar system... READ MORE›
SPACE WORLD BUYS NAMING RIGHTS TO STAR AHEAD OF CLOSING FINALE
The amusement park named the star, which is about 417 light-years from Earth, after itself Space World... READ MORE›
20/20 A TEAM OF FILMMAKERS IN THE US HAVE MADE THE FIRST EVER SCALE MODEL OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM IN A NEVADA DESERT
Scientists have seen black holes killing and swallowing stars... READ MORE›
MACHINES, NOT STARGAZERS, SPOT EIGHTH PLANET IN FARAWAY SOLAR SYSTEM, MATCHING OURS
Our solar system had nine planets until Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union, a decision that still stands... READ MORE›
MYSTERIOUS INTERSTELLAR OBJECT TO BE SCANNED FOR ALIEN TECH AS IT FLIES THROUGH SOLAR SYSTEM
The cigar-shaped body was first spotted in the solar system by researchers on the Pan-Starrs telescope in Hawaii in October, Breakthrough Listen reports... 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›
SEVERAL EARTH-LIKE PLANETS DISCOVERED ORBITING NEARBY STAR
Before this discovery, astronomers had one solar system with four rocky planets to study--Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars... 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›
A DRILL FOR THE END OF THE WORLD?
The asteroid, known as 2012 TC4,A could come as close as 4,200 miles to Earth, NASA said... READ MORE›
MEET THE HIDEOUS CREATURE THAT WILL LIVE TO THE END OF THE WORLD
Unlike us, tardigrades -- the world's most indestructible species -- will survive until the sun dies, according to a new Oxford University study released Friday... READ MORE›
MEET THE METAL MARVEL OF THE ASTEROID BELT
If 16 Psyche did start out as a protoplanet, as Professor Elkins-Tanton expects, it would have had a run of very bad luck... 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›
DOOMSDAY COMING? END OF THE WORLD IS IMMINENT, SAY CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS
NASA knows of no asteroid or comet currently on a collision course with Earth, so the probability of a major collision is quite small, it said... 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›
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›
ASTRONOMERS FIND TAIL OF STRAY BLACK HOLE LURKING IN MILKY WAY
Japanese researchers may have found a new way to uncover 'quiet black holes'... READ MORE›
LIFE ON JUPITER'S MOONS? JUICE MAY HOLD THE KEY
Is there life on jupiter's moons? juice may hold the key... 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›
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›
IS THE WORLD COMING TO AN END? ASTEROIDS ARE FLYING PAST EARTH MORE OFTEN THAN USUAL [VIDEO]
The fourth asteroid this year buzzed the Earth about midday Thursday, passing between the Earth and moon... 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›
RUSSIAN BILLIONAIRE YURI MILNER BEGINS $100 MILLION SEARCH OF THE UNIVERSE
NEW YORK -- The search to infinity and beyond begins now... READ MORE›
MEET THE LARGEST UNMANNED WORLD IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
It may be one of the darkest dwarf planets in our solar system, Barentsen said... READ MORE›
GOLDMAN SACHS IS READY TO CRASH THE WORLD ECONOMY THROUGH SPACE MINING
The global investment bank Goldman Sachs has claimed mining asteroids for precious metals is a realistic goal... 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›
ET RING BACK RUSSIAN TELESCOPE PICKS UP MYSTERIOUS RADIO SIGNAL
The fundamental question is rebounding once again after a mysterious radio signal was picked up by a Russian telescope... 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›
DWARF PLANET CERES BOASTS ORGANIC COMPOUNDS, SUGGESTING POSSIBILITY OF LIFE
Based on the location and type of organics found on Ceres, scientists ruled out the possibility they were deposited by a crashing asteroid or comet... READ MORE›