On March 11, a small, 6-foot-wide asteroid hit Earth off the coast of Norway. <ul><li>Technology from NASA tracked the rocks movements two hours before it hit the planet. </li><li>This technology c… [+2628 chars]
In a milestone for astronomy and possibly the search for extraterrestrial life NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed there are now 5,000 known planets beyond our solar system. These so-called e… [+1892 chars]
A controversial new theory suggests that there could be another universe going backwards in time before the Big Bang, which could explain the ambiguity of dark matter. A paper recently reviewed by a… [+2364 chars]
On March 22, the newest U.S.-European sea level satellite, named Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, became the official reference satellite for global sea level measurements. This means that sea surface he… [+4636 chars]
The overdeveloped spiral arm of the galaxy NGC 772, which was created by tidal interactions with an unruly neighbor, dominates this observation made by astronomers using the Gemini North telescope lo… [+2767 chars]
Understanding climate change and its effects on humans, animals, and natural spaces requires studying Earth as a whole, interconnected system. Water movement on Earth, in particular, is a process tha… [+3107 chars]
First predicted in Einstein's theory of general relativity, gravitational waves are tiny ripples in spacetime generated by titanic and powerful cosmic events. The great physicist believed that no equ… [+2920 chars]
