Is Life Possible on Venus? Scientists Investigate Habitability on the Hottest Planet in the Solar System

SPACE 12.14.2021 20:54 PM

Scientists will soon be sending a probe to explore Venus, the neighboring planet of Earth, with support from a new privately-financed mission, to see if life is possible there.

Massive Solar Storm From a Star as Big as the Sun Could Be a Warning Sign for Earth, Study Says

12.12.2021 23:30 PM

EK Draconis fired an explosion of plasma into space that was more enormous than any earlier documented for a sun-like star, according to scientists.

Solar Storm Warning: NASA Prepares For Swirling Debris That May Hit Earth This Week and Cause Mild Disturbance

12.09.2021 22:03 PM

NASA braces for the possible impact coming from the swirling Sun debris emitted via coronal mass ejection last week, raising a solar storm warning.

Climate Change Data Will Be Recorded in a City Bus-Sized Black Box Meant to Outlive Humans for Future Civilizations

12.08.2021 05:10 AM

Earth's Black Box in Tasmania, Australia will record every conversation and step humans took to fight climate change. The storage is built to be indestructible even to climate crises so future civilizations will learn from it.

Is the Moon Becoming the New Territory of Conflict? Military Efforts Ramping Up in Cislunar Space

12.08.2021 02:48 AM

Cislunar space, the gap between Earth's orbit and the Moon, has been gaining attention from the space community as nations have been eyeing it as the new military "high ground."

Ideal Iron Conditions Needed for Life to Strive on Earth and Other Planets

12.07.2021 00:35 AM

Researchers found that too much or too little iron will not allow life to thrive on Earth or on other planets. They have uncovered the mechanism of how it influenced the development of life forms.

Search of Life on Mars Continues: Fossil Mimics, False Positives Makes Research Harder

12.06.2021 13:03 PM

Researchers warns of natural processes that produce fossil mimics that make the pursuit of life on Mars more troublesome.

Heliosphere Mystery Unveiled: How Solar System's Shield That Protects Earth from Cosmic Forces Got Its Shape

12.06.2021 01:20 AM

A team of astrophysicists said that neutral hydrogen plays a key role in shaping the heliosphere, the protective bubble surrounding the Solar System that shelters Earth from cosmic forces.

Gas Giant Planets Like Jupiter, Saturn Orbiting V1298 Tau Star Could Reach Final Size At Very Early Stages of Evolution

12.04.2021 00:50 AM

Current hypotheses say exoplanets as big as Jupiter are even bigger and shrink as they develop. A recent analysis casts serious doubt on this.

Sun a 'Surprising Source' of Unexplained Water on Earth: What is Solar Wind Theory?

11.30.2021 20:16 PM

New research recently showed that solar winds that interact with grains of dust carried on asteroids may have contributed to filling the oceans on Earth with water.

Possibilities of Life for Organisms at the Bottom of the Ocean, Other Planets Aside from Earth Discovered

11.28.2021 20:17 PM

Biogeoscientists have recently opened up new possibilities for life in the dark, at the bottom of the oceans of Earth, as well as in other places in the solar system.

Should Most People Worry About Asteroid Impacts? Experts Say It's Complicated!

11.27.2021 21:45 PM

NASA is testing a mission called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, which will impact a big asteroid. After all, experts claim the chances of such a deadly space rock are complicated.

Large Asteroid Heading to Earth in December Could Cause Massive Destruction Greater Than an Atomic Bomb

11.26.2021 22:29 PM

A large asteroid as big as Washington Monument, which means it would be far more powerful than a nuclear bomb, will likely pass by Earth on December 27.

Solar Flare Warning: Geomagnetic Storm Could Reach Earth and Peak Sunday, Second Coronal Hole a Possibility

11.26.2021 20:45 PM

The US Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) warns that a solar flare from the Sun threatens to affect power grids and satellites and create northern lights.

Powerful ‘Cannibal’ Solar Storm Incoming: Experts Warn Of 50,000 Mile-Long ‘Plasma’ From Sun’s Flare

11.26.2021 04:58 AM

A storm of heated plasma and magnetic field from the Sun is expected to lash the Earth, according to space weather forecasters.

Space Junk: Earth Might Acquire Saturn-Like Rings Made of Debris, Experts Warn

11.23.2021 21:29 PM

According to University of Utah experts, Earth may one day have its own ring system formed of space debris.

How to Watch Double Asteroid Redirection Test on Wednesday? NASA Will Crash SpaceX Falcon 9 Into an Asteroid to Explore Defense Options for Earth

11.21.2021 23:10 PM

NASA is launching a spacecraft with a daring mission dubbed Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART to crash into an asteroid to explore the different defense options for Earth in case an actual threat happens.

NASA To Launch SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket For DART Spacecraft Mission, Protect Earth From Asteroid Collision

11.19.2021 22:03 PM

NASA is preparing to launch the first anti-asteroid defense spacecraft this November 24 in preparation for a future asteroid collision that is a threat to Earth.

Mars Missions Could Result in Revolution Against Control on Earth As Future Martian Settlers Become Autonomous

11.19.2021 05:10 AM

The 120-day isolation test, Project Sirius that's being carried out in Russia is seeking to examine the autonomous behaviors of the so-called future Martian settlers.

Why is the Sky Blue, But Space is Black?

11.18.2021 19:03 PM

Once the light hits, then, bounces off something, it is the atmosphere that's allowing the "scattering," and the capability of seeing colors in the spectrum seen by the eyes, making the sky blue, and the space black.

Near-Earth Object: Asteroid The Size Of The Great Pyramid of Giza Will Pass Earth During Beaver Full Moon 2021

11.16.2021 21:04 PM

On the night of November 2021's Beaver Full Moon, an asteroid as big as the Great Pyramid of Giza will pass by Earth along with a slightly smaller asteroid.