While space agencies simulate an asteroid impact this week at the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference, there’s a real asteroid they’re monitoring that will make a close appearance in just 10 years.
The US government already ran a short-lived ‘X-Files’ office in the Obama-era, which studied military reports about UFO sightings. Funding for the programme allegedly dried up in 2012, but the navy now wants this effort to be revitalised.
A 15,600-year old footprint discovered in southern Chile is believed to be the oldest ever found in the Americas, according to researchers.
A variation of the classic double-slit experiment is applied to a positron for the first time
An enormous ocean whirlpool the size of Colorado appears every spring off the coast of Somalia, and it’s so big, scientists can see it from space.
Researchers in Germany have created transparent human organs using a new technology that could pave the way to print three-dimensional body parts such as kidneys for transplants.
On April 13, 2029, a 1,110-foot-wide asteroid known as 99942 Apophis will speed past our planet at an estimated distance of around 19,000 miles, potentially coming closer to the surface than some orbiting spacecraft.
Up to half of Earth’s ocean water may have come from impacts by asteroids
SpaceX delivery delayed after old power-switching unit malfunctions
A jawbone found in a cave on the Tibetan Plateau in China is providing surprising insights into Denisovans, the enigmatic extinct cousins to Neanderthals and our own species, including that they were pioneers at enduring high-altitude environments.
