Asteroid 2012 DA14 Makes Closest Pass to Earth on Friday
Hemera/Thinkstock (file photo)(HOUSTON) — The asteroid 2012 DA14 will come scarily close to Earth on Friday, traveling from south to north, and passing closest to Australia, Asia and Eastern Europe. Its closest approach will be at 2:25 p.m. ET.T…
Rubio Answers Question on Age of Earth
Michael Bonfigli /The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., clarified his answer about the age of the Earth on Wednesday, two weeks after he passed on answering a question on the Earth’s age in an in…
Rubio Answers Question on Age of Earth
Michael Bonfigli /The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., clarified his answer about the age of the Earth on Wednesday, two weeks after he passed on answering a question on the Earth’s age in an in…
Alpha Centauri, Nearest Star System, Has Earth-Sized Planet
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Many scientists, in their quest to determine just how lonely we are in the universe, have wondered whether there are any planets in Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our own. And now, the first results…
Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Flies by Earth
Comstock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A 1,650-foot wide asteroid passed right by Earth Thursday night, and a bevy of astronomers watched it live via an online streaming camera.The asteroid, known as 2012 LZ1 is roughly the size of a city block, big enough t…
You’ve Never Seen Earth Like This
Research Center for Earth Operative Monitoring(NEW YORK) — The highest resolution image of earth ever taken didn’t come from NASA. The image was captured by Russian weather satellite, Electro-L, and unlike NASA’s famous “blue marble&…
Asteroid Threat in 2040? Scientists Watch 2011 AG5
Hemera/Thinkstock (file photo) (HOUSTON) — If an asteroid called 2011 AG5 follows the orbit scientists have plotted for it so far, there is a small chance it could hit Earth in February 2040.Astronomers, who have been tracking the asteroid since Janua…
New Super-Earth Found Near Distant Star
File photo. Ingram Publishing/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Scientists have found a planet orbiting another star — 22 light years away — and of all the hundreds of so-called exoplanets so far discovered, this one is, lead researcher Guillem Anglada-Escu…
Strongest Geomagnetic Storm in Six Years to Hit Earth
Digital Vision/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Earth will experience its strongest geomagnetic storm in six years on Tuesday, but the radiation is expected to cause only minor problems with satellites, the power grid and navigation devices.“Operators a…
Phobos-Grunt: Failed Russian Mars Probe Falls to Earth
Comstock/Thinkstock(MOSCOW) — Somewhere, probably in the southern Pacific between New Zealand and South America, the failed Russian Phobos-Grunt Mars probe returned ignominiously to Earth Sunday, said the Russian space agency Roscosmos and the U.S. Sp…