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“The Galaxy Report” brings you news of space and science that has the capacity to provide clues to the mystery of our existence and adds a much needed cosmic perspective...

“The Galaxy Report” brings you news of space and science that has the capacity to provide clues to the mystery of our existence and adds a much needed cosmic perspective...

Posted on Jan 30, 2022 in Science Our consistently strange Universe delivered another catch of fascinating news stories these past few days, ranging from an extraordinary black hole found in...

Posted on Dec 1, 2021 in Artificial Intelligence, Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Cosmology, Cosmos, Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Evolution, Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial Life, Hubble Space Telescope, Milky Way Galaxy, quantum...

Sixty-Six million years ago a 14 kilometer long, Mount-Everest sized asteroid blasted a hole in the ground, the Chicxulub Impact, releasing the equivalent of 100 million megatons of TNT creating...

With stories ranging from the quest for the origin of the universe to the strange cloud in the Outer Solar System to the 60-year extraterrestrial SETI silence of our Milky...

Posted on Oct 5, 2021 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, NASA, Solar System The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has announced that NASA has its sights set on visiting a mysterious giant asteroid...

“As we put more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and temperatures rise, we are quickly rewinding the climate clock to climate states not seen in human history,” wrote acclaimed University...

“Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our knowledge of Planet Earth and the future...

Posted on Aug 30, 2021 in Science “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our...

Posted on Aug 17, 2021 in Science “Our solar system was most likely formed in a giant molecular cloud together with a young stellar cluster, and one or more supernova...

Saturn’s moon Enceladus is unique in our Solar System — with plumes of water vapor and ice perpetually erupting, shooting jets hundreds of miles into space from its global subsurface...

“Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalist about the discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our knowledge of Planet Earth and the future of...

Can all life as we know it be traced back to the interstellar medium (ISM)? This March 2021, Michael McCarthy, an astrochemist and Acting Deputy Director of  Harvard Center for...

Posted on Apr 2, 2021 in Climate Change, Science, Technology “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalist about the discoveries, technology, people, and events...

Posted on Mar 10, 2021 in Planet Earth, Science, Technology “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and...

Posted on Mar 3, 2021 in Science What an amazing week: from an unknown Milky Way signal that may be a gravitational wave, mind-boggling cosmic string, or primordial black hole...

“The amazing thing about these observations, about this discovery, and about these molecules, is that no one had looked, or looked hard enough,” said Michael McCarthy, an astrochemist and Acting...

One of the James Webb Space Telescope’s (scheduled for launch on October 21) first tasks will be to learn why Mars lost so much water over its 4.5-billion-year history turning...

Posted on Mar 14, 2021 in Planet Earth, Science, Technology “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and...

Posted on Feb 5, 2021 in Science “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our...

On September 6th 2017 astronomers at Hawaii’s PanStarr Observatory detected an object hurtling in from deep space, from the direction of Vega, a star 25 light-years away. The mystery object...

Seven minutes of harrowing descent to the Red Planet occured on February 18th when NASA’s Perseverance rover — a robotic “scientist” weighing 2,260 pounds–parachuted through the tenuous Martian air, marking...

Posted on Jan 8, 2021 in Science “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our...

“Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our knowledge of Planet Earth and the future...

Posted on Dec 8, 2020 in Astronomy, Biology, Science, Solar System, Space “They are stained glass windows to the earliest time period of the solar system,” says Harold Connolly, a...

Posted on Oct 26, 2020 in Astronomy, Science Our Moon has yielded some long-held secrets in recent weeks, from possible evidence of ancient life on Venus to NASA’s new discovery...

“Any extraterrestrial organisms we find will be made of the same atoms we are,” observes Harvard’s Center for Astrophysics, Avi Loeb, about the recent detection of a potential biosignature in...

Posted on Sep 3, 2020 in Climate Change, Science, Space, Technology “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people,...

“Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our knowledge of Planet Earth and the future...

Posted on Aug 28, 2020 in Discovery, Evolution, Science If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water, underscoring the fact that Earth is the only planet...

Posted on Jul 19, 2020 in Astronomy, Science Science fiction writer and futurist, Arthur C Clarke once observed that our blue planet would have been more appropriately named “Ocean” rather...

Posted on Jul 28, 2020 in Astronomy, Extraterrestrial Life, Science, Space It’s been said that Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. “It’s there,” said astronaut Buzz...

“Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our knowledge of Planet Earth and the future...

Posted on Jun 22, 2020 in Climate Change, Science, Technology “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and...

Posted on Jun 30, 2020 in Climate Change, Evolution, Science The asteroid was so large that, even at the moment of impact, the top of it might have still towered...

Posted on May 5, 2020 in Climate Change, Science, Technology “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and...

In a recent blog, Harvard’s distinguished astronomer, Avi Loeb, celebrated the the launch of the space dog Laika onboard Sputnik 2 on November 3, 1957, as a historic milestone, the...

Posted on May 1, 2020 in Astronomy, Science The researchers believe that an active nearside tectonic system on the moon was actually set in motion billions of years ago with...

Posted on May 12, 2020 in Astronomy, Evolution, Science, Solar System In January, 2000, an asteroid,  harboring some of the oldest fluids in the solar system, burst into Earth’s atmosphere,...

Posted on Mar 16, 2020 in Astronomy As with Earth, asteroids delivered most of Mercury’s water, but the extreme daytime heat could be combining with the minus 200-degree Celsius cold...

“Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our knowledge of Planet Earth and the future...

Arthur C. Clarke, author of Space Odyssey 2001, famously warned “attempt no landing” to explore Europa, the most intriguing of Jupiter’s 79 moons, perhaps anticipating the “almost a racing certainty”...

“Planet Earth Report” provides summaries of headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our knowledge of Planet Earth and the future of...

Posted on Jan 22, 2020 in Astronomy, Climate Change, Science “Our findings highlight that acquiring precise ages of known craters is important – this one sat in plain sight for...

“Planet Earth Report” connects you to headline news on the science, technology, discoveries, people and events changing our planet and the future of the human species. A huge meteorite smashed...

Posted on Nov 19, 2019 in Astronomy, Extraterrestrial Life, Science, Space “Other important building blocks of life have been found in meteorites previously, including amino acids (components of proteins) and...

Posted on Sep 19, 2019 in Astronomy, Climate Change, News, Science, Space “Normally, Earth gains about 40,000 tons of extraterrestrial material every year,” says Philipp Heck, a curator at the...

Posted on Sep 27, 2019 in Astronomy, Featured Articles, Science, Space “This result could be key to unraveling fundamental questions for humankind, such as what organic compounds existed during the...

“It would have felt like the ground beneath your feet had become a ship in the middle of the ocean,” says earth and space science professor Mark Richards at the...