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Parker Solar Probe to hit the Sun again. This time Earth will watch it

Months after Parker Solar Probe touched the Sun, the spacecraft is once again headed into the eye of the storm. The probe will swing by for its 11th perihelion — the point in its orbit closest to the Sun. The flyby is crucial as the probe will approach ...

NASA reveals how big the Asteroid that killed dinosaurs, destroyed Earth, actually was

Back in the 19th and early 20th century, there were some interesting theories ranging from toxic volcanic gasses to food shortage. However, evidence has shown definitively that it was an asteroid strike that wiped the entire dinosaur species from the ...

China says Nasa is wrong about Moon crash object

China disputed Nasa claim that debris about to hit the moon originated with one of its exploration programs, the latest disagreement between the nations over their space programs. Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said Monday at a regular press ...

Hubble captures three galaxies merging to form one as gravity takes control

The Hubble Telescope, which has been one of the biggest source of our information from the deep universe has now managed to scope another galactic event. The flying observatory captured a merger of three galaxies in a distant universe to form one mass ...

European probe captures largest solar eruption ever seen from Sun | Watch

The Solar Orbiter monitoring the developments at the Sun has captured the largest solar prominence eruption ever observed in a single image. The eruption took place on February 15 when the sun exploded with plasma extending millions of kilometers into ...

China denies rocket set for moon crash was from 2014 Chinese mission

The rocket booster, expected to crash on the moon on March 4, was initially identified by an independent researcher as a used Falcon rocket stage from Elon Musk's SpaceX. The moon is seen during a partial lunar eclipse in Shanghai January 1, 2010.

Potentially hazardous asteroid to come close to Earth today

The Virtual Telescope Project will do a live stream of the asteroid as it zooms past the planet starting at 7 pm EST (5:30 am Wednesday IST). The project began in 2006 and is under the Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory in Italy and managed by Dr. Gianluca ...

A massive asteroid, size of a ship, near Earth today!

A giant space rock named Asteroid 1999 VF22 just passed Earth today, February 22, 2022. The asteroid was closest to Earth at 2:54 a.m. EST (07:54 UTC) on February 22. It was just 3.3 million miles (5.4 million km) away or almost 14 times the Earth-moon ...

A 40-Million-Year-Old Continent Have Been Rediscovered

The Hans India

The Hans India

According to recent research, a low-lying continent that existed 40 million years before and was residence to exotic species laid the way for Asian mammals to enter southern Europe. This forgotten continent called "Balkanatolia" by experts was wedged ...

What we learned from the Perseverance Rover's first year on Mars

Deccan Herald

Deccan Herald

One year ago NASA's Perseverance rover plunged through the Martian atmosphere and safely landed in Jezero Crater, a 45-kilometre-wide gouge that scientists suspect once hosted a deep, long-lived lake. The rover's ultimate target is near Jezero's ...