May 15, 2022 marks the first anniversary of the remarkable touch-down by China's Tianwen-1 on Mars in the southern part of Utopia Planitia, a vast plain on the northern hemisphere of the red planet, … [+2660 chars]
The volcanic Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai volcano eruption as seen in a satellite image. Image / JMARNZ Pacific Four months on from the violent explosion of the Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano, scientists … [+3616 chars]
A TikTok user who claims to be a time traveler from the year 2269 has warned that a “huge asteroid will come very close to Earth” next year. The user, who posts as @_time_traveller_2269, claims that… [+2017 chars]
Before the pandemic levels of anxiety were already pretty high, with one in five of us struggling. But, unsurprisingly, the figures have soared in the past couple of years, to one in three. Copin… [+2376 chars]
Researchers from Magallanes University in Chile discovered the fossilised remains of Fiona, a four-metre-long pregnant female ichthyosaur. This is Chile's first complete ichthyosaur fossil, discovere… [+1960 chars]
A collage of 21 images shows the eclipsed sun setting over the Atacama Desert in Chile on April 30, 2022. (Image credit: P. Horálek/ESO) On April 30, skywatchers gathered to watch the sunset over At… [+2478 chars]
Global warming and climate change are causing irreversible damage to our planet in numerous ways -- whether it's the changes in weather patterns, changes in the lives of the flora and fauna or even c… [+2580 chars]
A collage of 21 images shows the eclipsed sun setting over the Atacama Desert in Chile on April 30, 2022. (Image credit: P. Horálek/ESO) On April 30, skywatchers gathered to watch the sunset over At… [+2478 chars]
In the mid-1970s, the Soviet Union became the first and, to this day, only nation to fire a cannon in space. The real specifications of the mission, which is mounted on a space station, have remained… [+4174 chars]
The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano in January had scientists scrambling to figure out what caused such a massive explosion, which then triggered a devastating tsunami. Four months … [+4314 chars]
NASA has big plans to put humans back on the Moon in 2025 and will be testing out its new Space Launch System (SLS) later this year. The US space agency's SLS rocket is the most powerful ever built … [+2816 chars]
There are several asteroids that make their close appearance towards Earth every week. But space scientists have warned about a massive asteroid that will pass by the Earth in the early hours of 16 M… [+2003 chars]
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