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Two years after NASA's Dart mission, which involved a deliberate spacecraft collision with the asteroid Dimorphos, researchers have revealed new findings about the aftermath. According to a study published on...

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....

The recent findings from NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission have provided unprecedented insights into the twin asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos. This mission, which involved deliberately crashing a spacecraft...

The Hera spacecraft, on a mission to study the aftermath of NASA's DART asteroid impact, has beamed back its first images from space. Taken from a distance of over 1.6…

ESA has begun the development of the Ramses mission to rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis ahead of its 2029 close flyby of Earth. The €63 million contract to start preparatory…

The FAA has cleared SpaceX to resume Falcon 9 launches after temporarily grounding the rocket due to an upper stage issue during the Crew-9 mission in September. After reviewing SpaceX’s…

The European Space Agency's Hera mission is set to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, aiming to study the aftermath of NASA's DART impact on the…

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,…

Recent research reveals that nuclear explosions, specifically the X-rays generated by such blasts, could offer a controlled method to divert asteroids heading toward Earth. Unlike previous ideas of destroying asteroids,…

The BepiColombo mission, a collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), successfully completed its fourth gravity assist flyby of Mercury on September 4,...

On September 4, 2024, astronomers detected a small asteroid, 2024 RW1, just hours before its predicted atmospheric entry over the Philippines. The asteroid, roughly 1 meter (3 feet) in size,...

On September 3, 2024, China successfully launched a new group of classified Yaogan-43 remote sensing satellites from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, located in the mountainous Sichuan Province of southwest...

A recent study led by researchers from Dartmouth College has brought new insights into the future of Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, also known as the Doomsday Glacier, which has long been...

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...

A significant astronomical event is set to occur as asteroid 2011 AM24, classified as a "potentially hazardous object," will make a close approach to Earth on July 26. This asteroid,...

A possible meteor streaked across the skies of New York City and New Jersey on Tuesday morning, causing a loud boom and shaking that startled residents. The event, captured in...

China is set to launch its first asteroid deflection mission, targeting the near-Earth object (NEO) 2015 XF261 by 2030. This mission aims to demonstrate the country's planetary defense capabilities and...

An asteroid the size of the Statue of Liberty, named 2024 MT-1, is set to make its closest approach to Earth today, July 8, 2024. Traveling at a speed of...

This week, two significant asteroids are expected to safely pass Earth within a 42-hour span, coinciding with this year's Asteroid Day. These events emphasize the importance of improving our capabilities...

The emergence of AI in asteroid detection. In an astounding display of technology, artificial intelligence (AI) has revealed the presence of more than 20,000 previously unknown asteroids in our solar...

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 Dec 2, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Extraterrestrial Life, quantum physics, Science, Science News, Space News, Universe This weekend’s stories include A quantum computer has simulated a...

Posted on Oct 27, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Early Universe, Extraterrestrial Life, James Webb Space Telescope, quantum physics, Science, Science News, Space News, Universe Today’s stories include How One...

Posted on Oct 10, 2022 in Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, Consciousness, Extraterrestrial Life, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Planet Earth, quantum physics, Science, Science News, Technology Today’s stories include William...

Today’s stories include Black Holes Wobbling Three Times a Second have Proved Einstein Right to Astronomers Have Unveiled the World’s Largest Digital Camera, and much more. One of Jupiter’s moons...

Today’s stories include What does Earth look like from across the Universe to Carlo Rovelli: “Science is More Than Equations,” and much more. Artemis: Nasa ready to launch new era...

Today’s stories include Astronomers discover traces of ‘super-supernovas’ that destroyed earliest stars to Where is the center of the Universe? and much more. Where is the center of the Universe?...

Posted on Sep 25, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Extraterrestrial Life, James Webb Space Telescope, Milky Way Galaxy, NASA, quantum physics, Science, Space News, Universe This weekend’s stories include JWST’s...

Posted on Jul 14, 2022 in Planet Earth, Science, Science News Today’s stories range from  to is the Metaverse Science Fiction or Reality to Seven Spectacular Lessons from Webb’s First...

Posted on May 9, 2022 in Alien Life, Artificial Intelligence, Astrobiology, Astronomy, Cosmology, Cosmos, Dark Energy, Extraterrestrial Life, Milky Way Galaxy, Multiverse, Origin of Life, Science, Science News, Space, Technology,...

“If the Perseverance rover finds evidence for microbes on Mars, our self-esteem will not be affected since it is obvious that we are more intelligent than they are,” wrote Harvard’s...

A big step in solving the mystery of how the very biggest black holes grow has been taken by researchers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. They identified a black hole...

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...

Cosmologists speculate based on hints of twisted light that offer clues to an exotic substance called “quintessence”that could be the  unknown force accelerating the expansion of the universe, with implications...

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 May 27, 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 4, 2019 in Astronomy, Featured Articles, Science “The double asteroid was hurtling by the Earth at more than 70 000 km/h, making observing it with the Very...

Posted on May 30, 2019 in Evolution, Science, Science Fiction Sixty-five years and 35 films later, Godzilla is back and bigger than ever in Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Godzilla...

Posted on Mar 9, 2019 in Astronomy, Cosmology, Physics, Science There’s a crisis brewing in the cosmos. Measurements over the past few years of the distances and velocities of faraway...

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 5, 2019 in Astronomy, NASA, News, Science Stephen Hawking observed that one of the major factors in the possible scarcity of advanced intelligent life in our galaxy...

Posted on Jan 10, 2019 Based on findings by Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft, to think of the atmosphere of Venus, start with an image of hell and work back from there....

Posted on Sep 4, 2018 in Biology, Evolution, Science “Many of the animals we are familiar with today are objectively bizarre compared with the Cambrian weird wonders. Frankly, butterflies and...

Posted on Jun 20, 2018 in Biology, Science From an evolutionary standpoint, “there’s no reason to think grief would be restricted to humans,” says Richard Connor, a cetacean biologist at...

Posted on Apr 12, 2012 in Uncategorized           A team of astronomers have identified two 11- to 12-billion-year-old white dwarf stars only 100 light years away...