Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen speaks at the Kennedy Space Center in August 2023. The world’s richest man Elon Musk got into a heated row Thursday with a Danish astronaut who…
Category: Planetary Science
Odds plummet that asteroid will hit Earth in 2032
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The chance that an asteroid capable of wiping out a city will hit Earth in eight years has been cut in half to around 1.5 percent,…
Ranger 8 moon photos aid in Apollo site selection
Impact sites of Rangers 7, 8 and 9. Credit: NASA / JPL Before Apollo astronauts set foot upon the moon, much remained unknown about the lunar surface. While most scientists…
‘City killer’ asteroid now has 3.1% chance of hitting Earth: NASA
This handout picture provided by NASA shows asteroid 2024 YR4 as observed by the Magdalena Ridge 2.4m telescope at the New Mexico Institute of Technology on January 27, 2025. An…
Does planetary evolution favor human-like life? Study ups odds we’re not alone
A new model upends the decades-old “hard steps” theory that intelligent life was an incredibly improbable event and suggests that maybe it wasn’t all that hard or improbable. The team…
Asteroid Ryugu samples suggest presence of salty water in outer solar system
Colorized microscopic image of sodium carbonate deposit on Ryugu sample. Credit: KyotoU/Toru Matsumoto Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote…
