Preparing for an Inevitable Solar Storm
Let’s consider the following scenario – the Earth is at risk for a disruptive event. This event has, conservatively, about a 0.2% chance of happening on any given year. But that is the most conservative estimate, at the high end it could be more like 12% over the next decade. Either way the chance of this type of event happening … Continue reading
111-foot Asteroid Will Make A Close Pass of Earth at over 22,000 Miles Per Hour
Earth is soon set for another close shave with a hurtling space rock as an 111-foot asteroid is poised to skim past our planet on its closest approach for 115 years. First spotted by astronomers only earlier this week, the asteroid dubbed 2019 TA7 is set to fly by Earth at a speed of over 22,500 miles per hour at … Continue reading
Aliens May Have Visited Earth in the Past, New Study Claims
Enrico Fermi first posed the paradox that was later named after him, asking: “Where is everybody?” Ever since, astrophysicists have been pondering the question, as they argue that there has been plenty of time for intelligent life to put in an appearance, yet we’ve heard nothing from them. Alien civilisations may have explored the galaxy and visited Earth already without … Continue reading
UFO Photographed on Saturn by Cassini Spacecraft Appears in Earth’s Atmosphere?
NASA’s Cassini–Huygens space-research mission began aboard a Titan IVB/Centaur on October 15, 1997. It was active in space for nearly 20 years, with 13 years spent orbiting Saturn and studying the planet and its system after entering orbit on July 1, 2004. The voyage to Saturn included flybys of Venus (April 1998 and July 1999), Earth (August 1999), the asteroid … Continue reading
Life on Mars May Be Found in Couple of Years, Earth ‘Not Prepared’, Says NASA Scientist
Next year, NASA and the European Space Agency’s drilling rovers are to leave for the red planet to seek traces of life deep under the Martian surface. According to Dr Jim Green, who is involved with both missions, it is possible that at least one of them will discover the long-anticipated evidence. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Chief … Continue reading
NASA Increases ‘Planetary Defense’ Spending for Detecting, Deflecting City-Killing Asteroids
NASA has doubled what it is spending to help detect and possibly deflect asteroids on a collision course with Earth. Next year, the U.S. space agency plans to spend $150 million on its so-called “planetary defense” programs. Some of the money would be going to develop systems to detect asteroids and comets like the football-field-sized space rock that zipped past … Continue reading
Planet X Might Be a Miniature Black Hole, Researchers Say
An astronomical anomaly considered by scientists to point to an as-yet-undiscovered planet may actually be a big black hole lurking deep within our solar system, according to a new theory. Mathematical evidence for a planet, dubbed Planet Nine or Planet X by space scientists, was revealed by Caltech researchers in 2015. The strange object, they said, could have a mass … Continue reading
NGO Warns of Earth Collision With Asteroid Inevitable
The head of the nonprofit planetary defence group claimed that while at this time the risk of an asteroid colliding with Earth seems negligible, it also seems almost inevitable in the long run. A US-based nonprofit organisation called the B612 Foundation, which is dedicated to protecting Earth against near-Earth object impacts, urged global powers to step up the asteroid-detection efforts … Continue reading
How ALIENS ‘See’ Earth When Looking from Deep Space
Ever wondered what an alien astronomer might view when looking at our planet from a star system far-far away? US scientists say they just pictured that in an experiment aimed at improving our search for other pale blue dots. The search for exoplanets has been going on for years, and one can’t help but think of a possibility that we … Continue reading
Venus May Have Once Been Habitable Until Mysterious Catastrophe Millions of Years Ago
Venus is not a nice place, by human standards. For a world named after a Roman goddess of love and beauty, it really is quite the toxic, super-heated hellscape. But it wasn’t always this way. In a new study, scientists make the case for how ancient Venus could have once supported life alongside oceans of liquid water, until a mysterious … Continue reading
