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An asteroid just made a close approach towards the Earth; Is it possible to avoid an asteroid collision?
There are billions of asteroids in our solar system. NASA tracks those objects which are a potential threat to the Earth and are classified as Near Earth Objects (NEO). Just recently, an asteroid (named 2010 WC9) with a diameter of 60 to 130 meters zoomed past the Earth at a staggering velocity of 12.8 kilometers […]
SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to return to the Earth next week
The Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-14) launched on April 02 from the Cape Canaveral that took the resupply ship Dragon to the International Space Station is set to embark on its journey to return to the Earth soon next week when its Dragon spacecraft is expected to splash down in the Pacific Ocean. SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft […]
How will NASA’ TESS spacecraft will hunt for exoplanets?
After the colossal amount of time spent on designing, developing, and integrating the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), it was finally launched on April 18, 2018, aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It is expected to scan over 200,000 brightest or nearest stars in order to capture exoplanets using sophisticated transit technique which it will use […]
Humans are not from Earth, claims scientists
In a shocking claim made by several scientists, they cannot actually rule out the Panspermia hypothesis which was a theory proposed by British chemist Leslie Orgel and Physicist Professor Francis Crick. According to a buzz that has gained popularity recently, there are few scientists who believe that the human species didn’t originate on Earth and […]
Chinese space station Tiangong-1 about to crash on Earth: ESA
Out-of-control Chinese space station Tiangong-1 will finally crash into Earth during the end of March or early April. On Tuesday, the European Space Agency (ESA) gave an estimated time frame between which the Chinese Space shuttle would re-enter earth’s atmosphere. According to ESA’s Space Debris Office, the uncontrolled Tiangong-1 has a higher chance of crashing […]
NASA plans to destroy the asteroid Bennu with nuclear bombs
NASA is preparing for a nuclear attack, not on Earth, but on a large asteroid that has some chances of colliding with Earth in future. The asteroid, named Bennu, has a 1 in 2,700 chance of crashing to Earth on September 21, 2135. So, NASA is planning to destroy this potentially dangerous asteroid through nuclear […]
Scientists debunk the mystery of formation of Moon!
Scientists have hypothesized a new theory regarding the formation of the Moon, our closest cosmic neighbor. According to the new theory, the Moon, our only natural satellite, might have formed inside infant Earth, that means during the early period of Earth. The scientists related to the study say that moon may have formed from Earth […]
Huge near-Earth asteroid made a close encounter with Earth on February 25
A big asteroid just skimmed past Earth in a close distance. On February 25, the huge asteroid made a close flyby of Earth 8:22 UTC [12:22 p.m. CST. The name of the huge near-Earth asteroid is 2018 DU and during its closest approach, it was almost 175,000 miles (284,000 km) from Earth. This distance is […]
TRAPPIST system with exoplanets could house the “New Earth”: Suggests study
The year 2015 marked the discovery of three rocky planets that were similar to the size of Earth orbiting a dwarf star named Trappist-1. Two years later in the month of February 2017, another four planets were discovered orbiting in a tight pattern around the star. The team behind this discovery was led by a […]