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What If A Meteor Hits The Earth At The Speed Of Light?

More than four billion space bodies, a.k.a., meteoroids fall into the Earth’s gravity well every day. This moniker covers everything in size greater than interplanetary dust, but…

Astronomers Confess Error: There Are 100 Billion Earth-Like Planets in the Milky Way

Estimates by astronomers indicate that there could be more than 100 BILLION Earth-like worlds in the Milky Way that could be home to life. Think that’s a…

BREAKING: Jupiter is currently closer to Earth than it has been since 1963, and it won’t be this close again for 107 years.

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime encounter happening right now for everyone who is captivated by things in the sky – and you won’t want to miss it. It’s not…

NASA predicts close approach of Asteroid 2023 CR2 TODAY!

Today’s NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day took a chilling snap of the well-known 7 Dusty Sisters. It is also called the Pleiades star cluster, known for…

Astronomers Spot Super-Earth Dubbed Ross 508 b Orbiting Its Star’s Habitable Zone

Astronomers have revealed the discovery of a Super-Earth orbiting a faint red dwarf within the star’s habitable zone. The distant world is believed to have 4 times…

Supernova Seen by 12th Century Chinese Astronomers Identified in Deep Space

To date, astronomers have discovered only one other supernova remnant of this rare type. Astronomers have found a supernova remnant that was noticed in the sky back…

Video: Spacecraft Lands on Asteroid 300 Million Kilometers Away

Watch the moment a spacecraft lands on an asteroid some 300 million kilometers away. A spacecraft from Japan visited an asteroid measuring approximately one kilometer in diameter…

At 2.2 Billion Years Old, This is the Oldest Impact Crater on Earth

Around 2.2 billion years ago, a massive space rock collided against our planet, leaving a massive scar. Around 200 million years older than any other site like…

Ask Astro: Why are small black holes more dangerous than big ones?

The tidal forces at the event horizon of a stellar-mass black hole are much more violent than around a supermassive black hole. Even though a human falling…

Be aware! A supermassive black hole with a tremendous speed of 110 km/s is heading towards Earth

There is a massive black hole with millions of times more mass than our sun is plunging towards Earth and will one day annihilate life as we…