Tag: Earth
Jupiter will make its closest approach to Earth next week
Jupiter, the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System- is at its biggest and brightest this month. Next week,...
ESO contributes to protecting Earth from dangerous asteroids
The unique capabilities of the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have enabled it to obtain the sharpest images of a double asteroid...
Earth recycles ocean floor into salty diamonds
The most wonderful quality about diamonds is that they are one of the only types of physical matter on this earth that do not...
Comet inspires chemistry for making breathable oxygen on Mars
Although plentiful in modern Earth’s atmosphere, molecular oxygen is extremely rare in space. Only trace amounts have been found elsewhere in our solar system...
Asteroid with its own moon will pass by Earth this weekend
The asteroid with the number 66391 (also known as 1999 KW4) is what is known as a Near Earth Asteroid because its orbit around...
Moon formation brought water to the Earth
Earth is the only terrestrial planet with a large amount of water and a relatively large moon, which stabilizes the Earth's axis. Earth grew...
What does Earth’s core have in common with salad dressing?
This magnetic field is formed deep inside the earth in a fluid outer core of iron and other elements that creates electric currents. The...
Two neutron stars collided near the solar system billions of years ago
A growing body of evidence indicates that binary neutron-star mergers are the primary origin of heavy elements produced exclusively through rapid neutron capture. As...
Black hole nine times larger than the sun is pulling in space and time
Recently, astronomers have detected fast - powerful, relativistic, swirling jets coming from a black hole that lies about 8000 light-years from Earth. The black...
