A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...

Astronomers discovered supersonic winds on a giant gas planet located over 500 light-years from Earth. In a study released Tuesday in Astronomy & Astrophysics astronomers who have been studying ...

Scientists have assured us that it poses no threat to our planet. According to the portal indiatimes.com, on Sunday, 26th January 2025, the asteroid named 2024 YY5 will pass by Earth. The event ...

Two bands of radiation called the Van Allen belts encircle Earth. After a May 2024 solar superstorm, two more showed up between those belts.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is tracking asteroid 2025 CG, set to pass Earth safely today at about 1.3 million miles away. Though small, its high speed and proximity classify it as a near ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4, which is expected to pass Earth in 2032, was recently calculated to have a 1-out-of-43 chance of striking our planet ... from Rutgers-Newark in 2012 and was awarded a ...

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it would pass from the state of ice to the liquid state, conducive to the appearance of life, during the planet's revolution around the star. Detecting this super-Earth was not easy and the ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is monitoring asteroid 2025 CG, which will pass by Earth on 8 February. Measuring approximately 55 feet in diameter, this near-Earth object poses no threat.

It still ranks a 3 out of 10 on the Torino scale, currently the greatest asteroid threat since Asteroid Apophis, which will now safely pass ... Earth before. If Asteroid 2024 YR4 hit the planet ...

Nasa says explosion would be 150 times greater than A-bomb dropped on Hiroshima with chances of it smashing into the planet now 2. ... 90-metre-wide space rock passed Earth on Christmas Day 2024 ...