According to experts, the Earth’s core is cooling faster than previously believed, which might hasten the planet’s eventual march toward uninhabitability in millions or billions of years. For the duration of Earth’s 4.5 billion-year history, the planet’s interior has been ...
Space debris is nothing we should take lightly. It’s a serious problem that astronomers and other scientists had been thinking to solve for many years. But there is indeed hope that the problem of space debris will go away. That ...
We all have to deal with the idea that the Universe isn’t a safe place, regardless of how much we like to believe otherwise. Of course, our planet is so full of life and opportunities, it provides food and water ...
The threat of the huge amount of space debris from the Earth’s orbit is becoming more and more real. A piece of such space junk that belongs to broken satellites can become extremely dangerous for a spaceship. The International Space ...
Why spend so much time exploring other planets when we still have a lot to learn about our own? At first, you would surely laugh at such questions. But when you think of it, they actually have some wisdom in ...
Spending an extended period of time in space isn’t exactly our idea of fun. It can become more demanding for the human body than we can imagine, even if the astronaut is an experienced one. According to Space.com, NASA is ...
Bennu is one of those asteroids that astronomers must always keep an eye on. Measuring 262.5 meters in its radius, the asteroid is far from being a “global killer” from the Armageddon movie released in 1998. But still, you would ...
It might sound incredible, but there are still a lot of people out there who believe that our world is not a sphere-shaped planet. Those conspiracy theorists firmly believe that NASA and all the other space agencies are lying to ...
Titan stands out as the largest moon of Saturn and the second-largest natural satellite from our Solar System after Ganymede. But that’s not all when it comes to Titan. Saturn’s moon is the only known space object except for Earth ...
Scientists are worried about a possible devastating impact on our planet. Their concerns are tied to the Gulf Stream, as the current poses a risk of collapsing. The stream remains one of the main potential tipping points when it comes ...
Habitable planets surely are there, somewhere, waiting for us. Our common sense tells us that Earth cannot be the only one in such a vast amount of space. But until astronomers ever find those fully habitable planets, learning more about ...
Aliens must be out there, somewhere. Humanity suspects it for centuries. Humans have imagined how alien life would look like and transposed it into sci-fi movies, cartoons, video games, toys, and so on. The funny thing is, extraterrestrial friends might ...
Look closely at the night sky with the naked eye for a few nights in a row. What do you see? If you didn’t see any meteors, you’ve been unlucky. Relatively small space rocks enter our atmosphere every day. Most ...
Not even all the money in the world will save you from death. Everybody dies, and in the end, there will be no trace of human beings on Earth. Our planet will become a total wasteland or even completely shattered, ...
Scientists initially believed that asteroids hitting Earth, such as the Chicxulub impactor that wiped out the dinosaurs, represent very rare events. There are plenty of reasons why you would be tempted to believe so, and one of them is represented ...
Whether we like it or not, Doomsday will surely come sooner or later. Both science and the Bible admit it, and the only questions are “when?” and “how?”. Among the most plausible scenarios, we find the hypotheses of a nuclear ...
The world always needs more powerful tools to look deeper into the wonders of the Cosmos. Until only one hundred years ago, astronomers were sure that the Universe is infinite in space and time, and there’s no wonder why. All ...
An intriguing recent discovery shows us we’re pretty stealing the spotlight in the Universe. If you think Earth couldn’t do that, well, you’re about to change your mind. A team of bold scientists from the American Museum of Natural History ...
It’s a pretty common misconception that the Chicxulub impactor that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs represents a kind of event that we can see only once in the Earth’s lifetime. But our planet has been here for about ...
Many astronomers worry that it’s only a matter of time until another devastating asteroid will smash into Earth, as it happened roughly 66 million years ago when the dinosaurs went extinct. Hopefully or not, most of us won’t be around ...
Recent data show how millions of tons of extra-heated gas discharged from the Sun’s surface raced 90 million miles toward our planet. The phenomenon, dubbed coronal mass ejection, wasn’t that strong on the space-weather scale. However, the magnetic field awoke ...
Earth is covered in complex layers of gases that compose the atmosphere. They work as a global shield for all life on Earth. However, we are actively shrinking an entire one of those layers, known as the stratosphere, due to ...
As we try to look for a better world, Earth itself has suffered quite some transformation in the last 60 years. Forests turned into cropland, savannah into pastures, and that’s because we really have a part in deciding Earth’s future. ...
Earth has now quite the sneaky neighbour, and astronomers have all the details. A tiny black hole, approximately 1,500 light-years from Earth, in the Monoceros constellation, it’s excitingly close by. As per astronomers’ calculations, we have nothing to worry about, ...
Space has sent to our planet a rare isotope of iron for the last 33,000 years. This thing is intriguing yet curious, mainly because scientists found radioactive dust underneath the ocean waves. That indicates how Earth is travelling through a ...