Asteroid Florence, a large near-Earth asteroid, will pass safely by Earth on September 1, 2017, at a distance of about 4.4 million miles, (7.0 million kilometers, or about 18 Earth-Moon distances). Florence is among the largest near-Earth asteroids that are ...

In October, the Space and Future International Youth Forum will take place in Kyiv, Ukraine. We have already started introductions of the speakers in an interview with Rick Tumlinson. Today we continue to introduce the speakers: Leonid Kadenyuk, the first ...

An extensive study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the number of animals that ever coexisted with humans has decreased by 50 percent. A “mass annihilation”, so scientists call the consequences of human impact on ...

In an interview with the BBC coinciding with his 75th birthday, Stephen Hawking, the world’s renowned scientist, has again predicted a not really good future for humanity. The physicist warns that the Earth may become an extremely hot planet in ...

The homeward-facing instrument on NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory, or DSCOVR, launched in 2015, caught hundreds of these flashes over the span of a year. As keen observers from outside NASA wrote in, questioning the source of these lights, scientists ...

New research on solar storms finds that they not only can cause regions of excessive electrical charge in the upper atmosphere above Earth’s poles, they also can do the exact opposite: cause regions that are nearly depleted of electrically charged ...

This period of intense and rapid climate change occurred at the same time when Australia separated from Antarctica, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Phys.org. Lead researcher ANU PhD student Ian Brennan said the team detected the mass extinction of pygopodoid ...

The physicist, who has spoken out about the dangers of artificial intelligence in the past, says a ‘world government’ could be our only hope, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Mail Online. He says our ‘logic and reason’ could be the ...

The fossil, which was found in Quebec, Canada, shows life on earth was thriving as far back as 4.2 billion years, hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Metro. This makes the prospect ...

As Metro reports, NBA star Kyrie Irving said in a podcast, ‘This is not even a conspiracy theory. The Earth is flat… I’m telling you, it’s right in front of our faces. They lie to us.’ Other NBA players came ...

There are around 2,000 known asteroids that could strike our planet in the next billion years, according to experts. However, the chance of Earth actually being hit by one of these in the near future is close to zero, Daily ...

Earth’s 2016 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Globally-averaged temperatures in 2016 were 1.78 degrees Fahrenheit (0.99 degrees Celsius) warmer than ...

David Meade, author of the book ‘Planet X – The 2017 Arrival’, believes a star, which he calls ‘a binary twin of our sun’, is coming ‘at us towards the south pole’, according to the Daily Mail. He says the ...

Now the world can see images of the vivid, sunlit side of the Earth every day. NASA camera, taking these pictures, located on a distance of one million miles on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a partnership between NASA, ...