Tag: astronomy

ufo, ufos, aliens, science

What You Need to Know About Alien ‘False Alarms’

Aliens might not be a frequent topic of discussion, but when scientists discover something unusual in outer space, it’s hard to keep the mind from wondering if we’re really the only ones in the universe. This is what happened recently when Russian astronomers happened to be observing HD 164595, a star in the constellation of …

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comets, earth, space

Researchers: We’ve Been Accidentally Under-Counting Earth-Smashing Rocks

Editor’s note: This post has been updated and broken links removed. Please see our policy on broken hyperlinks for more. If you’ve always had a fear of the earth ending one day due to a gigantic meteor, researchers have some bad news. Over the last two decades, astronomers believe that they’ve been accidentally under-counting the number of …

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pluto, nasa

We’re Finally Getting an Up-Close Look at Pluto, and It’s Beautiful

Ever since we decided to kick Pluto out of our model of the “perfect” solar system, the dwarf planet has been relatively forgotten — until now. Close-up images of Pluto started being released by NASA during the week of July 13 after the New Horizons spacecraft took some snapshots during a flyby. Additionally, New Horizons …

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