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Scientists Propose a New Kind of Planet: A Smashed Up Torus of Hot Vaporized Rock

Under the right conditions, two colliding rocky bodies might form a temporary structure called a 'synestia'. This rotating mass of…

8 years ago

Digital Society Boosted by Stunning SpaceX Launch Delivering Inmarsat Mobile Broadband Satellite to Orbit – Photo/Video Gallery

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - The worlds emerging ‘Digital Society’ gained a big boost following SpaceX’s stunningly beautiful twilight launch…

8 years ago

We Will Launch on Reusable Rocket After Exceptional SpaceX Performance – Inmarsat CEO Tells Universe Today

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Following SpaceX’s “exceptional performance” launching an immensely powerful broadband satellite on their maiden mission for…

8 years ago

Dinosaur Killing Asteroid Hit in Exactly the Wrong Place

A new BBC documentary called "The Day The Dinosaurs Died" explains how things might have been different for the dinosaurs…

8 years ago

Mysterious Flashes Coming From Earth That Puzzled Carl Sagan Finally Have An Explanation

NASA's EPIC camera aboard NOAA's DSCOVR spacecraft solves decades old mystery that stymied Carl Sagan. Mysterious flashes are mysterious no…

8 years ago

New Estimate Puts the Supernova Killzone Within 50 Light-Years of Earth

A new paper on supernovae and the effects on Earth increases the so-called "Supernova Kill-Zone" to 50 light years.

8 years ago

SpaceX Targeting Twilight Thunder for May 15 Inmarsat Blastoff – Watch Live

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - SpaceX is targeting twilight thunder with the firms Falcon 9 rocketing skyward from the Florida…

8 years ago

SpaceX Continues Torrid 2017 Launch Pace With Commercial High-Speed Inmarsat Broadband Satellite on May 15

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - SpaceX is all set to continue their absolutely torrid launch pace in 2017 with a…

8 years ago

Early Earth Was Almost Entirely Underwater, With Just A Few Islands

Ancient grains of the mineral zircon help researchers paint a picture of Earth in the Hadean Eon, and that picture…

8 years ago

NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson Sets US Space Endurance Record, Speaks to President Trump

NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson set the endurance record for time in space by a U.S, astronaut today, Monday, April 24,…

8 years ago