Potentially Hazardous” And Extremely Valuable Asteroid to Whizz By Earth This Weekend
This Saturday, the asteroid 4660 Nereus will make its closest approach to Earth in decades. The trip was unusually not close at 3.9 million kilometers…
Astronomy
HD 34445 b – an Extrasolar Planet
HD 34445 b is a gas giant exoplanet in the habitable zone of a G-type star. It is an extrasolar planet that orbits the G-type…
Field Geology near Mars’ Equator Points to a Megaflood from the Past
According to data collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover and analyzed in a joint project by scientists from Jackson State University, Cornell University, the Jet Propulsion…
HD 34445 – a Star with Multiple Exoplanetary Companions
HD 34445 is a star in the equatorial constellation of Orion with multiple exoplanetary companions. It is not part of the Orion constellation outline, but…
Neil deGrasse Tyson on Why the Moon Landings DefinitelyWeren’t Fake
Neil deGrasse Tyson has chimed in on one of the century’s most intriguing conspiracy theories: were the Apollo Moon landings staged. The astronomer was understandably…
NASA Forgives Jeff Bezos, Chooses Blue Origin to Design New Space Stations
NASA has given three businesses lucrative contracts to construct the International Space Station’s (ISS) successors, advancing its aspirations to develop next-generation commercial space stations by…
China’s Lunar Rover Spies “Mystery House” On Far Side of the Moon
Clearly, the aliens erected their homes on the far side of the Moon, away from the prying eyes of our telescopes. What they didn’t expect…
Gliese 581d – an Extrasolar Planet
Gliese 581d is an extrasolar planet orbiting within the Gliese 581 system in the Libra constellation, approximately 20.4 light-years away. This exoplanet, which is seven…
Gliese 581c – a Super-Earth Planet
Gliese 581c is a 2007 discovery of a super-Earth planet. It is a planet that orbits the Gliese 581 system. It is the second planet…
Scientists Argue that Water is not as Invincible as Previously Thought Within Dark, Polar Moon Craters
The Moon’s south pole region contains some of the solar system’s most extreme environments: it’s unbelievably cold, extensively cratered, and features sections that are either…
NASA Rocket Aims to Uncover Mystery of the Earth’s Polar Cusp
The polar cusp is an area above the Earth that exists at noon local time over the Arctic and Antarctic circles. It is a mystery…
Gliese 1214 b – an Exoplanet
Gliese 1214 b is an exoplanet discovered in December 2009 that orbits the star Gliese 1214. GJ1214b, discovered by the MEarth project and studied further…
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