NASA releases details about the mission Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), which aims to deflect an asteroid approaching Earth in 2022. The space agency will send a probe to the binary asteroid Didymos, which also has a small moon known as Dimorphos. Didymos’s primary body is approximately half a mile wide, while the moon is… Read more »
Remember the Armageddon movie? Yes, the movie where a group of astronauts led by Bruce Willis save humanity by preventing a huge asteroid from crashing into Earth, well, now NASA will do the same to prevent a huge asteroid from impacting our planet in 2022. NASA has been working for a while on this type of mission, all… Read more »
Over a thousand dinosaur species once roamed the Earth. Learn which ones were the largest and the smallest, what dinosaurs ate and how they behaved, as well as surprising facts about their extinction.
Observatories including NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope found that the interstellar object named ‘Oumuamua gained an extra boost of speed, which likely comes from comet-like jets of gas. Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/our-solar-system-s-first-known-interstellar-object-gets-unexpected-speed-boost Find more Hubble visuals here: http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2018-25 Find the science paper…
