[ad_1] Photo credit: SCIEPRO – Getty Images Popular mechanics A car-sized asteroid called 2018 VP1 will pass Earth on November 2, the day before Election Day 2020. Fortunately, 2018 VP1 has a 0.41% chance of entering Earth’s atmosphere. He would probably burn anyway. Researchers discovered the asteroid in 2018 using telescopes at the Zwicky Transitional … Read more
[ad_1] item NEW YORK – It looks like 2020 will not let go. Scientists say an asteroid is expected to zoom uncomfortably close to Earth the day before Election Day. The celestial object, known as 2018 VP1, is expected to buzz Earth on November 2, according to the Center for Near Objects Studies at NASA’s … Read more
[ad_1] Design studio House of van Schneider created a visual identity for NASA’s Mars 2020 mission, which condenses the red planet, Earth, and the rover into three simple, flat shapes. Designed to capture “the energy and legacy of space travel,” the logo and brand was created to mark the launch of NASA’s Perseverance robotic robot, … Read more
[ad_1] Tiny elephant shrew resurfaces after more than 50 years on NPR lost species list [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA’s next observatory slated to launch in the mid-2020s, could reveal a host of rogue planets that do not orbit stars in our Milky Way galaxy, news reports research. These exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system, move through the galaxy on their own and are not locked … Read more
[ad_1] A close-up view of comet NEOWISE, taken by Hubble on August 8.Picture: NASA, ESA, Q. Zhang (Caltech) and A. Pagan (STScI Comets don’t always survive their sojourns in the Inner Solar System, but a new close-up image suggests Comet NEOWISE – the brightest in decades – held it together. In about 6,800 years, our … Read more
[ad_1] One of the worst extinction events in Earth history may have been triggered by a supernova, the violent death of a distant star. About 75% of all species on Earth have died by the end of the Devonian period, almost 360 million years ago. Rocks from this era retain several thousand spores that appear … Read more
[ad_1] The discovery could help us understand the “geodynamics” that keep compasses pointed north. (NASA) Scientists have recreated the hellish conditions at the heart of our planet in a laboratory – and now believe the solid core of Earth is about a billion years old, much younger than previously thought. The researchers measured the conductivity … Read more
[ad_1] item NEW YORK – It looks like 2020 will not let go. Scientists say an asteroid is expected to zoom uncomfortably close to Earth the day before Election Day. The celestial object, known as 2018 VP1, is expected to buzz Earth on November 2, according to the Center for Near Objects Studies at NASA’s … Read more
[ad_1] Spaceship made of carbon foam bubbles could zoom from Earth to Alpha Centauri in 185 years, driven only by the power of the sun, finds a new study. A swarm of these probes could help discover and study the mysterious solar system Planet nine, if this hypothetical world exists, the scientists added. Conventional rockets … Read more