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Earth Gets Struck by a Space Laser Transmission 140 Million Miles Distant

April 30, 2024April 30, 2024Archana Suryawanshi

A laser message that was just received by Earth from a record-breaking 140 million miles distant in space may have significant ramifications for space travel in the future. The sender of this letter, NASA’s Psyche mission, which is presently situated around 1.5 times the distance between Earth and the Sun, wasn’t extraterrestrial, though. “This represents […]

Experts predict that the horned Devil Comet that is approaching Earth will blow up shortly

December 30, 2023December 30, 2023Archana Suryawanshi

Greater than Mount Everest, the enormous comet known as the “Devil Comet” is hurtling toward Earth. This celestial body, which goes by the official name 12P/Pons-Brooks, is a periodic comet with an orbital period of 71 years. Comet 12P blazed across the skies in a breathtaking display of celestial events all year long. Every fifteen […]

Scientists didn’t notice a skyscraper-sized asteroid until two days later when it was flying closer to Earth than the moon.

July 20, 2023July 20, 2023Tejaswini Patil

A space rock as extensive as a 20-story building cruised awkwardly near Earth last week, zooming by our planet at around a fourth of the distance among Earth and the moon — and stargazers didn’t see it until two days after the fact. On July 13, the roughly 200-foot-wide (60-meter) space rock that NASA calls […]