Supernovas may have played a role in two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions, study suggests
New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...
NASA Tracking Plane-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth Today
The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.
Asteroid 2024 YR4 is going to miss Earth, but the story doesn’t end there
In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away, ground-based telescopes were able to gather enough observations to get a better handle on its orbit. So we can safely take a deep ...
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NASA's PUNCH is set to study how the Sun influences the space around us
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying PUNCH successfully launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 11:10 P.M. EDT on March ...
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‘City Killer’ Asteroid Suddenly Declared Safe — What To Know
The chance of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth has been reduced ... have reduced its size to about 165 feet (50 meters) in diameter. 2024 YR4 orbits the sun every four Earth years, so it passes ...
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NASA Launches Missions to Study Sun, Universe's Beginning
Riding with SPHEREx aboard the Falcon 9 were four small satellites that make up the agency's PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the ...
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An asteroid’s chances of hitting Earth keep shifting. Here’s why that is happening
And scientists are expecting similar forecasting trends with 2024 YR4, which currently sits at a 3 on the Torino Scale ... and size. “While certainty for 2024 YR4 missing the Earth is the ...
Supernovas may have caused mass extinctions that killed 85% of life on Earth
Exploding stars known as supernovas may have sparked mass extinctions that wiped out up to 85% of animals on Earth.
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Spots on the Sun and the Maunder Minimum
The sun was well observed during the period of the Maunder Minimum and this lack of sunspots is well documented. This period of solar inactivity corresponded to a climatic period called the ‘Little ...