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This photo of comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE was taken in July 2020. There’s no doubt that comets have struck Earth in the past, and some have exploded in the air above the surface. One of these exploding comets could’ve triggered the Younger Dryas, bringing and end to the Clovis culture and wiping out megafauna. Image … Read more

Blue Origin is committed to making a permanent human presence in space a reality. To this end, they have developed the New Shepard and New Glenn rockets to send payloads to orbit, and aim to create super-heavy launch vehicles to reach the Moon (New Armstrong and Blue Origin) and beyond. Another focus has been on … Read more

Whenever astronomers detect something new moving through our region of space, like an interstellar object or an unusual asteroid, somebody somewhere claims it could be an alien interstellar space probe. It’s like one of those laws about human behaviour—Godwin’s Law for example—that should probably have its own name. This applies to the detection of 1991 … Read more

In a recent discovery, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) detected a massive stellar eruption measuring eight light-years across. This outflow, known as Sharpless 2-284 (Sh2-284 for short), is located about 15,000 light-years away in the outer reaches of the Milky Way. Based on an analysis by an international team of astronomers, this outflow appears … Read more

78 million years ago, a 1.6 km asteroid slammed into what is now Finland, creating a crater 23 km (14 mi) wide and 750 km deep. The catastrophic impact created a fractured hydrothermal system in the shattered bedrock under the crater. There’s evidence from other impact structures that in the aftermath of a collision, life … Read more