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 ...
Read More »Astronaut Leonid Kadenyuk: Looking at the Earth from the Cosmos, you think it’s our home, it’s necessary to protect and save it!
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 ...
Read More »Earth Is On Brink Of Sixth Mass Extinction, Study Shows
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 ...
Read More »Stephen Hawking Makes Dire Warning About Climate Change
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 ...
Read More »NASA Camera Spots Mysterious Flashes on Earth – Video
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 ...
Read More »Solar Storms Can Drain Electrical Charge Above Earth
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 ...
Read More »Study reveals mass extinction event 35 million years ago
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 ...
Read More »Stephen Hawking warns without a ‘world government’ technology could wipe out humanity
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 ...
Read More »Discovery of world’s oldest fossil suggests there was alien life on Mars
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 ...
Read More »Yet more celebrities come out and say they believe the Earth is flat
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 ...
Read More »Doomsday asteroids are on their way to Earth, but we are safe for another 1.35mln years
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 ...
Read More »NASA video shows global warming from 1880 through 2016 in 20 seconds
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 ...
Read More »Will the world end in October? Conspiracy theorist claims mysterious planet Nibiru will smash into Earth
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 ...
Read More »NASA new website shows daily images of Earth
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, ...
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