[ad_1] This week a giant asteroid will be in close proximity to Earth. The asteroid is said to have a diameter of 0.51 km, the same as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, and will pass within 4,302,775 km of Earth. It is also said to be the same …
Read More »NASA is having “difficulty” landing astronauts on the moon
[ad_1] SpaceX-NASA mission: 4 astronauts emerge radiant after successfully docking at the ISS | Oneindia News A big round of applause for NASA and SpaceX when the 4 astronauts of the SpaceX-NASA mission arrived at the international space station. The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space. Credit: …
Read More »Dinosaurs could have flourished today if it weren’t for asteroids, the study says
[ad_1] About 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs’ dominance of the planet came to a fiery end when a 10-mile-wide asteroid struck Earth off the coast of Mexico. The change triggered a drastic change in temperature that saw a lot of garbage plowing through the atmosphere for hundreds of years, …
Read More »ISS will get bigger soon, Russian cosmonauts get ready
[ad_1] The International Space Station or ISS is the only place outside the Earth where humans have maintained a presence for a long time now. It has also changed a lot since astronauts started calling it a temporary home. Over time, new modules have been added, giving more space to …
Read More »Biologists discover ancient microbial ecosystems beneath the killer dinosaur crater
[ad_1] How did life on Earth come about? How did he survive the Aeon Hadean, a period in which repeated massive impacts carved craters thousands of kilometers across the earth’s surface? Those impacts turned Earth into a hellish place, where the oceans turned to vapor and the atmosphere was filled …
Read More »A 10-meter asteroid beats a record for approaching Earth – Science – Life
[ad_1] An unknown space rock the size of a small cabin, dubbed VT4 2020, set a record on November 13 as it passed just under 250 miles above the South Pacific. The asteroid was detected by the survey of Asteroid Land Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) at the Mauna Loa …
Read More »The reason why the water on Mars is decreasing
[ad_1] Jakarta, CNN Indonesia – Dust storm Planet Mars suspected of being the cause of the disappearance air on that planet. Dust storms are common, but for unknown reasons, terrifying storms have spread throughout the solar system to cover the planet Mars. Storms can be a deadly threat to space …
Read More »Ancient Pacific Ocean fragment found buried 400 miles below China
[ad_1] Scientists have identified an old piece of the Pacific Ocean – the ancient remnants of its long-ago seabed – that extends hundreds of miles below China as it is dragged down into the transition zone of the Earth’s mantle. This rock slab that flanked the Pacific floor is a …
Read More »A small asteroid has even approached Earth from SpaceX Starlink satellites
[ad_1] Close enough for a high five … NASA An asteroid set a new mark Friday for the closest passage from our planet without actually impacting. Space rock was discovered with the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, operated by NASA and the University of Hawaii. It was designated …
Read More »The mass extinction that ended the Triassic may have come later than we thought
[ad_1] The Triassic-Jurassic extinction event that ended the Triassic period and led to the Jurassic about 200 million years ago was one of the largest mass extinctions in the history of our planet. In total, around 25-34 percent of marine genera are thought to have been lost during the event …
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