167 results for "space debris"

Posted on Oct 12, 2020 in Science “The idea of a black hole ‘sucking in’ a nearby star sounds like science fiction. But this is exactly what happens in 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...

Posted on Oct 20, 2020 in Astronomy, Milky Way Galaxy, Science In 2018, an international team of astronomers proposed that around 8 billion to 10 billion years ago an unknown...

“Without phosphorus there would be no thought,” observed Jacob Moleschott a 19th-century physiologist and philosopher. Phosphorus is one of the six main elements that make up the human body and...

Posted on Jul 23, 2020 in Astronomy, Evolution, Science “Our moon is a witness to the history of the solar system,” says planetary scientist Kentaro Terada at Osaka University in...

Posted on Jul 29, 2020 in Biology, Climate Change, Evolution, Science “The oldest traces of life are fossils of marine microbes dating back almost 3.5 billion years. It was in...

Posted on Jun 24, 2020 in Astronomy, Science When the TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission was launched in 2018, NASA predicted that the space telescope would discover thousands of...

Posted on May 27, 2020 in Astronomy, Black Hole, Science In January of 2019, astronomers at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaii and the University of Hawaii Institute...

Posted on Apr 14, 2020 in Science “It is really a mysterious object, but some signs, like its colors and the absence of radio emission, point to ‘Oumuamua (Hawaiian for...

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Posted on Jan 6, 2020 in Astronomy, Science On July 4, 1054 AD, Chinese, Arab, Japanese and Pueblo Indians of New Mexico sky watchers observed what they thought of as...

An enormous “something” more massive than a star, appears to have torn a hole in part of the Milky Way’s halo. The “dark substructure” was found in data from Gaia...

“I don’t see extraterrestrials as more speculative than dark matter or extra dimensions,” says Harvard’s Avi Loeb, who has spent much of his extraordinary career searching for alien life. “I...

Posted on Jun 8, 2021 in Astronomy, Science, Space “A billion years ago, something in the whirling darkness of space erupted with a fury that obscured the glow of entire...

“It would be tantalizing to find microfossils of extraterrestrial forms of life on the moon. Even more exciting would be to find traces of technological equipment that crashed on the...

Posted on Aug 16, 2019 in Astronomy, News, Science, Space “How such a massive star can form in complete isolation is still a mystery,” said Sebastian Gomez, at the Harvard...

Posted on Aug 10, 2019 in Astronomy, News, Science, Space An object massive enough to see from Earth just slammed into Jupiter on Wednesday, recalling an event in July of...

Posted on Aug 6, 2019 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, News, Science, Space Astronomers are planning to hunt for cores of exoplanets around white dwarf stars that have burnt all of their...

Posted on Aug 13, 2019 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Science, Space “We know that giant planet migration must have taken place in order to explain the current orbital structure of the...

Posted on Jul 31, 2019 in Astronomy, News, Science, Space “Imagine this enormous red wave coming towards you, up to 120 meters high,” said Alexis Rodriguez, a Mars researcher at...

Posted on Jul 23, 2019 in Astronomy, Science, Space A strange dark matter phenomena is speeding towards the Sun at 500 kilometers per second. In September of 2018, a team...

Posted on Jun 17, 2019 in Astronomy, NASA, Science “We see so much more, and closer up, and we’re getting new and more interesting puzzles,” said NASA’s Ames Research Center’s...

Some 65 million years ago the greatest asteroid impact in a billion years may have sown life throughout the solar system, even as it ravaged life on Earth. Blasted debris...

The 1947 crash in the New Mexico desert that become legendary among UFO fans and conspiracy theorists turns out to have been nearly as strange a visit by an alien...

In the mid-1980s, a group of American archaeologists pored over satellite images trying to understand what had become of the Mayan civilization that had once ruled over Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula,...

Posted on May 13, 2021 in Climate Change, NASA, News, Science “There is something about the Himalayas not possessed by the Alps, something unseen and unknown,” said mountaineer and botanist...

Black holes have been described as a “one-way door out of our universe” and as “the gates of hell, the end of space and time.” That was how black holes...

Posted on May 23, 2019 in Astronomy “While there have been many dwarf satellites falling onto the Milky Way over its life, this was the largest of them all,” said...

Posted on May 22, 2019 in Science, Science Fiction The “Planet Earth Report” connects you to headline news on the science, technology, discoveries, people and events changing our planet and...

Posted on May 4, 2019 in Astronomy, Dark Matter, Science “There’s something happening in the data we don’t understand,” said Rebecca Leane, a theoretical physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of...

.  “Beautiful as it is, our Universe is constantly evolving, often through violent events like the Milky Way’s forthcoming collision with the Large Magellanic Cloud,” said Carlos Frenk, Director of...

Posted on May 16, 2019 in Astronomy, Science, Space An enormous “something” appears to have torn a hole in part of the Milky Way’s halo. The “dark substructure” was found...

Posted on May 21, 2019 in Astronomy, Science The mystery of the stark difference between the Moon’s heavily-cratered farside and the lower-lying open basins of the Earth-facing nearside has puzzled...

Posted on Apr 3, 2019 “That is a terrible, terrible thing, to create an event that sends debris in an apogee that goes above the International Space Station,” said NASA...

Posted on May 2, 2021 in Evolution, Mass Extinction, Science “Driving through the lonely, windswept ranchlands of southwestern North Dakota, we got out of our field vehicle, passed through through...

Posted on Mar 11, 2019 in Astronomy, Evolution, Science There does not seem to be enough craters on our planet from ancient epochs — just 190 confirmed worldwide. Recent research...

Posted on Mar 15, 2019 in Astronomy, NASA, News, Science “Unlike on Earth, this sea was likely groundwater fed. If the ancient source aquifers hosted life, the proposed marine sedimentary...

Posted on Mar 19, 2019 in Astronomy, Science Astronomers observed a ghostly pulsar, a superdense, rapidly spinning neutron star exploded from a supernova 10,000 years ago, racing through space at...

Posted on Feb 10, 2019 in Astronomy, Evolution, NASA, Science “The mystery of why we haven’t yet found signs of aliens may have less to do with the likelihood of...

Posted on Jan 17, 2019 in Astronomy, Science New findings from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft indicate that Saturn’s rings formed between 10 million and 100 million years ago. From our planet’s...

Posted on Jan 8, 2019 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Science Our Sun is not one of the most abundant types of star in our Milky Way galaxy. That award goes to...

Posted on Jan 11, 2019 in Astronomy, Science “We know from theory that black holes and neutron stars form when a star dies, but we’ve never seen them right after...

Posted on Jan 16, 2019 in Astronomy, Science Since the Gaia Spacecraft’s April 2018 data release, astronomers have unveiled a Milky Way teeming with astounding surprises, including hints of dark-matter...

Posted on Oct 29, 2021 in Astronomy, NASA, Science “It would be tantalizing to find microfossils of extraterrestrial forms of life on the moon. Even more exciting would be to...

Posted on Jan 10, 2019 Is it a monster black hole of epic size or a first-of-its-kind supernova? A brief and unusual flash spotted in the night sky on June...

Posted on Nov 22, 2018 in Astronomy, Extraterrestrial Life, Science, Space In 2016 a group of astronomers from Pennsylvania State University released a preprint that cited star KIC 8462852’s “bizarre...

In 2018,  a long-hidden and especially tumultuous chapter in the Milky Way’s history was revealed: a smash-up between the young Galaxy and a colossal companion that once orbited the Milky...

Posted on Nov 21, 2018 in Astronomy, NASA, Science, Solar System “It’s like a ski jump,” said Ken Ramsley, a planetary science researcher at Brown University. “The boulders keep going...

“Disclosure has already occurred. Disclosure is not an event, it’s a process,” said Luis Elizondo, former head of a hitherto unknown government operation called the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program...