If Earth was the size of a marble, the edge of our solar system would be 11 kilometres away. That’s a lot of space to hide a planet.
It may just seem like an itty bitty flash, but if this same object hit Earth, load shedding would be the least of our worries.
The nation’s ability to adapt and refine existing technology, combined with its wealth of skilled engineers operating at lower wages compared to international counterparts, have been driving factors in India’s success.
We’ve only ever seen this icy giant in great detail when NASA’s Voyager 2 became the first and only space probe to fly past it for just a few hours in 1989.
Possible evidence of a ninth planet in our Solar System seems more likely than ever according to a British astronomer.
At a distance of 628 million kilometres from Earth, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has sent us some dreamy snaps of Jupiter’s surface.
The colossal Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet was first spotted in 2014, and has now made its way another billion kilometres closer to Earth.
An asteroid the length of four rugby fields will be speeding through Earth’s solar system tomorrow, at a closer proximity to us than the moon. Nothing of this magnitude has come nearly as close to colliding with our planet for 30 years. But rest assured the asteroid is not going to hit us. Not yet, anyway.
The Pale Blue Dot Carl Sagan is a deceased astronaut astronomer. And that miniscule blue dot inside the blue circle is Earth. He is one of the few people to have ever existed who could claim to have pondered global events with a truly broad perspective. When you’ve considered the earth from 6,1 billion miles […]