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The Reality of Armageddon

The movie showed how humans may survive an extinction event but in reality it is nearly impossible to drive a space shuttle onto an asteroid and start drilling to plant a nuke bomb and shatter the...

Have you ever seen a comet in the sky?

Most people do not have the time to look skywards because of the busy life that they lead. However those who do are enthralled by the grandeur of the night sky. One of the most thrilling spectacles...

Michael Jackson

Like a comet Blazin' cross the evening sky Gone too Soon Like a Rainbow fading In the twinkling of an eye Gone too soon To your family you are a beloved brother, son and uncle and to your...

Have you seen the Comet?

Right now Comet Lulin is supposed to be at its brightest, near magnitude 5.6, which is visible to the naked eye. I am hoping to take some pictures of it but I don't know what time of day to look for...

Not directly about earth, more about Jupiter

Ok, so at the end of last year, when my science teacher couldn't be bothered even attempting to teach, he showed us a video, which was recorded in 1993. I can't remember the name of the show, but it...

Look out for Halley's Comet debris

Amateur astronomers are being promised a celestial treat tonight when the Earth ploughs through a stream of dust left by Halley's Comet. A spectacular display of natural fireworks, called the Orionid...

Comet find boosts hope for alien life

NASA scientists have found compelling new evidence that life may be common in the universe and not just special to Earth. They discovered one of the basic building blocks of life in samples of a...

Comet dust

Image Credit: NASA Today, Prof. Don Brownlee of the University of Washington visited our department to give a colloquium. He was talking about the results of NASA's Stardust mission, which sent...

Today in History: Tunguska Event

One hundred years ago, a mysterious explosion in the Tunguska region in Western Siberia leveled an area of 2,000 square kilometers. Scientists speculate that Tunguska Event was caused by a meteor or...

Rosetta boosted by 'bounce' off Mars

Mission control scientists cheered today as they played cosmic billiards with a European comet probe. They bounced their Rosetta spacecraft off the red ball - planet Mars - by flying it within 155...