167 results for "space debris"

“AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else. —Eliezer Yudkowsky, research fellow, Machine Intelligence...

New research reveals that over 70% of meteorites that fall to Earth come from just three young asteroid families: Karin, Koronis, and Massalia. This finding significantly updates our understanding of…

United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched its second Vulcan Centaur rocket on October 4, 2024, marking a major step toward certifying the rocket for future national security missions. Despite a…

ESA’s Hera mission, a vital follow-up to NASA’s DART impact test on the asteroid Dimorphos, is nearing its October 7 launch. Hera will study the aftermath of the DART collision,…

The annual Orionid meteor shower, caused by debris from Halley's Comet, has begun and will be visible until November 22, 2024. As the peak approaches on the night of October…

New geological evidence suggests that Earth might once have been encircled by a ring of debris, much like Saturn. This hypothesis, proposed by researchers from Monash University in Australia, was...

NASA researchers have succeeded in recreating the strange "spider-like" formations observed on the surface of Mars, offering the most concrete explanation to date for these peculiar features. The formations, called...

Recent discoveries have shown that the outer Solar System is more crowded with celestial bodies than previously believed. Acombination of data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii and NASA’s New...

The European Space Agency's Mars Express mission continues to deliver breathtaking images of the Red Planet, with one of its latest photographs capturing a remarkable view that includes Mars’ largest...

Saturn, one of the most captivating planets in our solar system, is famous for its stunning and intricate ring system. These rings, composed primarily of ice particles, rocky debris, and...

An asteroid approximately the size of two football fields, designated 2024 ON, is set to make a notably close approach to Earth this month. According to the Virtual Telescope Project,...

Asteroids hurtling through space at mind-boggling speeds are not just the stuff of sci-fi nightmares—they're a real threat to our planet. While Earth has dodged catastrophic impacts for millions of...

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the world’s first planetary defense experiment, was a resounding success when it managed to alter the orbit of the asteroid moon Dimorphos in 2022....

In a major scientific breakthrough, researchers have traced the origins of 200 Martian meteorites found on Earth to just five impact craters located in two volcanic regions of Mars—Tharsis and...

India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission has made groundbreaking discoveries that support the long-standing hypothesis that the Moon was once engulfed by a global magma ocean. This discovery offers a deeper understanding of...

The terrifying asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs? It didn't just come from anywhere in the solar system—it was hurled at us from beyond Jupiter, a distance so vast that...

The mysterious origins of the asteroid responsible for wiping out the dinosaurs have long perplexed scientists, sparking debates about whether the deadly impactor was an asteroid, comet, or another celestial...

Hidden beneath the idea of the asteroids being plain space rocks is a more complex issue. Recent studies have shown that certain asteroids may possess moons having strange shapes like...

Having been initiated in 2011, NASA’s NEOWISE mission has recently concluded its work after identifying more than 3,000 near-Earth objects (NEOs), which are asteroids and comets that can potentially hit...

The Perseid meteor shower, one of the most anticipated celestial events of the year, is set to peak soon, providing stargazers with a dazzling display of meteors lighting up the...

Astronomers have discovered that Saturn ejected a fast-moving comet, designated Comet A117uUD, from our solar system at an astonishing speed of 6,700 miles per hour. This event, analyzed through extensive...

Stargazers are in for a treat as two meteor showers, the Alpha Capricornids and the Southern Delta Aquariids, will peak in close succession next week. This rare event provides an...

Astronomers are advocating for a revised definition of what constitutes a planet, aiming to include thousands of celestial bodies orbiting stars other than our Sun. This initiative seeks to address...

This week, skywatchers can look forward to a range of exciting celestial events visible to the naked eye. From planetary alignments to meteor showers, the night sky offers plenty of...

The Perseid meteor shower, one of the most spectacular annual celestial events, is set to light up the night sky again this summer. With peak activity expected on the nights...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has made a remarkable discovery during its recent flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh in November 2023. The mission revealed significant geological features and a fascinating new formation: a...

SpaceX's Starship, the largest and most powerful spacecraft ever sent to space, achieved a significant milestone with its fourth test flight on Thursday, completing its first successful splashdown in the...

Researchers have allegedly discovered seven stars in our galaxy that exhibit signs of potentially being surrounded by Dyson spheres, advanced structures built by hypothetical alien civilizations to harness the energy...

A massive asteroid about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza will pass by Earth today, NASA has warned. The 120m (394ft) asteroid, technically titled 2024 JZ, will travel...

Posted on Aug 6, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Dark Matter, Extraterrestrial Life, Fermi Paradox, Hubble Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope, Milky Way Galaxy, Multiverse, Science, Space News, Universe...

Posted on Aug 1, 2022 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Early Universe, Exoplanets, Galaxies, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA, Science, Space News, Universe Today’s stories from Beyond range from NASA brings...

Posted on May 7, 2022 in Astronomy, Science, Science News, Supernova Most massive stars in the Universe form as binaries. “Understanding the life cycle of massive stars is particularly important...

Posted on May 16, 2022 in Astrobiology, Climate Change, Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), Extraterrestrial Life, Future, Origin of Life, Planet Earth, Science, Science News, Standard Model of Physics, Technology Today’s...

Posted on May 3, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Cosmology, Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial Life, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Milky Way Galaxy, NASA, quantum physics, Science, Science News, Space...

Today’s stories range from Secret Government Info Confirms First Known Interstellar Object on Earth to Missing Link in Evolution of Viruses Discovered, and much more. The Planet Earth Report provides descriptive...

“Neutron star mergers are extremely rare,” explained Columbia University astrophysicist Brian Metzger in an email to The Daily Galaxy about the exotic phenomenon known as a kilonova, “occurring only once...

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...

“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 21, 2022 in Astronomy, Black Hole, Science, Solar System Maxwell Moe, astrophysicist, NASA Einstein Fellow, University of Arizona via Gary M. Bernstein,  Simon Portegies Zwart,  BBC and...

Posted on May 3, 2021 in Astronomy, Hubble Space Telescope, Science !n the 1920’s, most astronomers thought that all of the universe — the planets, the stars seen with the...

     The first-ever discovery of an extraterrestrial radioactive isotope on Earth has scientists rethinking the origins of the elements on our planet. The tiny traces of plutonium-244 (Pu-244) were found...

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Posted on Jan 20, 2021 in Astronomy, Science Cosmic sleuths are attempting to locate one of the estimated one billion neutron stars in the Milky Way–the collapsed core of a...

One early result of the 2nd release of the still ongoing Dark Energy Survey is the previously untold story revealed by old, giant RR Lyrae (RRL) pulsating stars with a...

“The idea of the existence of advanced extraterrestrial life is no more speculative than extra dimensions or dark matter. It fact, he says, it is less so,” says Harvard astrophysicist,...

Posted on Jan 9, 2021 in Astronomy, Science When stars more than thirty times bigger than our sun explode, they produce a type of young neutron star called a magnetar...

Posted on Nov 17, 2020 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 Nov 12, 2020 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Science, Supernova “Although Earth was originally created from the Sun (as part of the ecliptic plane of debris and dust that circulated...

“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 Nov 18, 2020 in Science “We were in the middle of observing one night, with a new spectrograph that we had recently built, when we received a message...