Water on Comet 238P in place where it seems it shouldn’t be Researchers have made a major discovery about the origins of Earth’s water, using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope’s NIRSpec tool has confirmed that water vapor is present around a comet in the main asteroid belt, suggesting that water ice from the…
Heaven’s Gate was strange even among the bizarre New Age beliefs that were popularized in the 1970s. Here’s how a group of people chose to follow and die for a man in order to board a UFO hiding behind a comet.
A sungrazer comet (technically known as Kreutz sungrazers) crashed into the sun on August 4, 2016 and lucky for us, the entire event was captured on video by NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). Analysis of the video shows the comet plunged into the sun at a mind-boggling 373 miles per second!
This bizarrely-shaped comet will zip past Earth today at just under 1.3 lunar distances. Fittingly, the comet, which scientists believe is “dead” (it has already shed its volatiles), bears an eerie resemblance to a human skull.
Forget the often-disappointing Perseids meteor shower – Geminids is not only better, it’s predicted to be especially cool this weekend. The Geminids shower has been strengthening in recent years and already surpasses every meteor shower of the year. This year, we’re holding out hope that the show is even better than last year’s brilliant display.
It may sound like science fiction but alas, this is really about to happen. On November 11, 2014, the European Space Agency (ESA) will land a small robotic spaceship, known as Philae, on a comet. It will be the first comet landing in the history of mankind. Here’s how it will happen…
A powerful meteor with the power of a 300-kiloton atomic bomb blasted the Russian region of the Urals early on Friday about 9:20 AM local time injuring over 1,000 people, hospitalizing more than 100 persons (two critically injured), damaging several hundred building structures (including a zinc factory that appears to have taken a direct hit),…
Paul Renne, a geologist at the Berkeley Geochronology Center (BGC), along with colleagues from U.C. Berkeley as well as researchers from the UK and Netherlands, has resampled radio-isotope measurements from impact debris. It has been over two decades since the debris was analyzed to determine the impact date that theoretically doomed the dinosaurs. The new…
Russian astronomers have discovered a comet, named C/2012 S1, which is heading our way. It is scheduled to fly by Earth in December 2013. It is expected to be the brightest visitor to our solar system in over a century. Astronomers believe the comet will be considerably brighter than Halley’s Comet (1986) and Hale-Bopp (1997)…
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