NASA has just announced that it will hold a press conference on Thursday afternoon at 1 p.m. EDT (6 p.m. GMT) to reveal near-Earth asteroid findings and the potential implications for future research. The briefing will be held at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission, launched in December of [...]
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Well, you can stop worrying about getting hit now. Pieces of that defunct NASA UARS satellite that plummeted to Earth have landed, NASA said this morning. The space agency said the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite “is down,” according to the space agency’s Twitter page. NASA said debris fell to Earth between 11:23 p.m. ET Friday [...]
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Remember how the other day we were told that that falling NASA satellite wouldn’t hit us here in the U.S.? Well, looks like that was incorrect. The UARS satellite has begun slowing down and now won’t re-enter our atmosphere until Friday night or Saturday morning U.S. time, according to NASA officials. The United States is once [...]
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We’re still not sure where NASA’s UARS satellite will land and there’s already another satellite to worry about. Yes, more space junk is headed our way, as the defunct German space telescope called ROSAT is set to hit the planet at the end of October. What’s really great about this one? It’s even more likely [...]
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We like to talk about conspiracy theories and doomsday scenarios every once in a while here at Blippitt, and there seems to be some stuff going on later this month that will at least make you scratch your head and wonder. Maybe Harold Camping was right about all those doomsday predictions. Maybe he was just [...]
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Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…a NASA satellite? It could be. A NASA satellite is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere on Friday, September 23, according to NASA officials. Re-entry of NASA’s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) was originally expected in late September or early October 2011, almost six years [...]
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Astronomers on Monday announced the discovery of 50 new planets circling stars far beyond our own sun, including one so-called “Super-Earth” that is the right distance from its star to possibly have water. “If we are really, really lucky, this planet could be a habitat” like Earth, said Lisa Kaltenegger of the Max Planck Institute [...]
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Here’s something you don’t see every day. Astronomers believe they have determined what caused a giant energy flash spotted in a galaxy far, far away, saying it emanated from an enormous massive black hole that gobbled up a star that had drifted too close to it. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, Swift satellite, and the [...]
A large solar flare triggered what may be the largest eruption ever seen on the surface of the sun yesterday, scientists say. The solar flare itself really wasn’t all that surprising, but what followed was a sight to behold. No, what surprised scientists was the enormous amount of material that expanded and fell back down [...]
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Eureka! The crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise would be so proud! We’ve actually discovered a strange, new life form, but it’s not located in deep space. Instead, these little creatures live miles beneath the surface of the Earth. Dubbed “Worms from Hell” because they’re located in the deep subsurface biosphere, these nematoda (including a new [...]
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If you live here in the U.S. and were hoping to catch today’s partial solar eclipse, you’d better hop on a plane, quickly. The eclipse will be visible in northern parts of China, Japan, Siberia, Scandinavia, Scotland, Iceland, and Canada. The eclipse shadow will hit the Earth in northern China and Siberia at 1925 GMT. [...]
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