A monstrous 1.2km asteroid is hurtling towards us as we speak and is expected to crash into our orbit next week. NASA’s Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking Tool has identified an absolute whooper that’s m… [+2030 chars]
NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning image of Arp 298, a pair of interacting galaxies in the constellation of Pegasus. Located about 206 million light-years away from Earth in the cons… [+1092 chars]
Scientists said recently that fish fossils in the U.S. state of North Dakota are providing a deeper understanding of one of the worst days in the history of life on Earth. On a spring day 66 million… [+3511 chars]
The compilation of astronomical images highlighted by NASA this week brought a memory of a very special date: on February 18 of last year, the rover Perseverance landed on Mars. To celebrate, one of … [+9675 chars]
NASA will fund new futuristic space technologies. Some of them are like the machines and other innovations you see in sci-fi movies. The NIAC (NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts) is the program of t… [+3993 chars]
That must've been a powerful explosion. Moon Rocks The Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded in the Russian sky back in 2013 could actually have been involved in the creation of Earths Moon, according t… [+2446 chars]
Graphic depiction of the CREW HaT concept Elena DOnghia NASA has awarded the next round of grants for one of its most ingenious initiatives - the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. T… [+3799 chars]
The effects of long-term space travel on humans are only beginning to be understood: In a new study, a collaborative effort between the European Space Agency and Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, res… [+3906 chars]
Black holes are massive objects in the Universe. Like all other objects in Universe, black holes also spin, which is described by a conserved quantity called angular momentum, which accounts for both… [+3401 chars]
A new study shows that a common natural plant extract may lead to greater metabolic health and longer lifespans. Researchers at Louisiana State University fed the leaves of Artemisia scoparia — a sp… [+4099 chars]
About 66 million years ago, a giant asteroid slammed into Earth, leading to one of the biggest extinction events on the planet, and ending the age of dinosaurs during springtime in the Northern Hemis… [+1759 chars]
CHRISTOPHER BORRO Scottsbluff Star-Herald A series of unusual craters discovered in Wyoming may have been caused when an asteroid crashed into or near the Nebraska Panhandle 280 million years ago. … [+3676 chars]
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