Can an asteroid wipe out the Earth?
After dominating the Earth for more than 160 million years, the dinosaurs finally met their doom thanks to a visitor from space. Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid measuring at…
Nobel Prize winner: “The universe keeps dying and being reborn”
The universe, according to Roger Penrose, the 2020 Nobel Prize laureate in physics, goes through cycles of death and rebirth. According to the scientist, there have been…
A new discovery suggests the existence of an alternate universe
Within exotic materials there could be an alternative “universe” in which the force of the quantum interactions that determine life is not constant, but variable, and which…
Where Do Black Holes Lead?
So there you are, about to leap into a black hole. What may possibly await you if, against all chances, you survive? Where would you wind up,…
The full Snow’s Moon could outshine a ‘dragon’ meteor shower on Nov.8, is that right?
On Oct. 9, the full Hunter’s Moon rose once again, reaching peak illumination at approximately 4:54 p.m. ET (8:54 p.m. UTC). As with all full moons, the…
Comet traveling 84,000 mph is fast-approaching Earth very soon
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft landed on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko back in 2014, and now the comet is making a very fast approach towards Earth. A…
Asteroid as Powerful as 50 Megaton Nuke May Slam Into Earth Soonest
A large asteroid that could someday be headed directly for Earth would pack a tremendous impact force 1,500 times that of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs…
New Technology Could Enable Humans to Travel at 7 million Mph
LIGHT IS FAST. In fact, it is the fastest thing that exists, and a law of the universe is that nothing can move faster than light. Light travels at 186,000…
Maybe you don’t know – The Moon is “leaving” the Earth
Looking up at the moon in the night sky, you would never imagine that it is slowly moving away from Earth. But we know otherwise. In 1969,…
Most awaited – The most powerful gamma ray explosion helps scientists decipher many things
All eyes are on the source of the record-breaking gamma-ray burst that lit up the sky last week. On Oct. 9, a beam of light more energetic…