Earth may be about to pass through the ion tail of a comet

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) as seen from the Canary Islands on 30 September CARLOS DE SAA/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock…

Space-made weld scrutinised in ESA lab

Enabling & Support 10/10/2024 62 views 1 likes ESA engineers have focused microscopes, hardness testers and…

Space-made weld scrutinised in ESA lab

Enabling & Support 10/10/2024 33 views 0 likes ESA engineers have focused microscopes, hardness testers and…

Bright fireball over Australia’s east coast

A bright fireball was reported by hundreds of people over Australia’s east coast on the morning…

Most Mars Meteorites Came From Five Craters

Meteorites strike Earth every day. It’s estimated that about 100 – 300 metric tonnes of material…

NASA Reveals the Mind-Boggling Scale of Hurricane Milton seen from Space

We often talk about Jupiter’s Great Red Spot quite candidly but forget that hurricanes can be…

How likely is a doomsday asteroid swarm from Comet Encke?

Here’s Comet Encke – whose orbit lasts only 3.3 years – riding along its pebbly trail…

Sound of Earth’s magnetic flip 41 000 years ago

Approximately 41 000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field briefly reversed during what is known as the…

A New Way to Detect Rocky Exoplanet Atmospheres

The total number of exoplanets discovered to date totals 5,288. Among them are a host of…

Imagine if we lived here

Imagine a sky full of hundreds of stars as bright as the full moon … If…