A new study published by researchers reveals an asteroid near Earth that would be worth trillions of dollars if mined. There are many asteroids in space, and some of them contain large amounts of precious metals that are used to … Read More
The sunspot appeared last week as large but relatively calm in the active region 2882, or AR2882. But now it begins to activate and the AR2882 erupts with a powerful coronary mass ejection (CME) on the morning of October 9 … Read More
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission captured its first images of its destination planet Mercury as it swooped past in a close gravity assist flyby. The closest approach occurred on October 1, 2021, at 23:34 UTC, at an altitude of 199 km … Read More
A comet so massive that it was initially misidentified as a dwarf planet is on its way in from the outer Solar System. There’s no need to be concerned; C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein), as the comet is known, will pass just … Read More
About 4.6 billion years ago, a giant shapeless cloud full of dust and gas condensed in one place due to the irresistible force of gravity. This is how the Moon, the Sun and all the planets in our system are … Read More
On August 28, 1859, the Carrington event began with a massive ejection of a solar coronal mass that struck the Earth’s magnetosphere and caused the most powerful geomagnetic storm in history. They called it a solar superstorm. Solar activity, with … Read More