Asteroid 2012 LZ1 that passed by Earth last week is actually twice as large as scientists originally thought, new radar images revealed.It came within 5.3 million kilometers (3.3 million miles) of Earth at its closest approach on June 14. Since that distance is
The Earth facing side of the Sun is nearly blank today (with the exception of a few very small sunspots). This is yet another example of how weak this current Solar Cycle 24 really is in comparison to the previous cycles during the past 100 years. Hard to believe that
A possible fireball or meteor shower grounded planes fighting the Springer fire near Lake George in the Pike National Forest, Colorado. A Pueblo air-dispatch center began receiving reports of “balls of fire or something in the air” at 2:37 p.m. local time on
Recently, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has been turning up a new crowd of stars close to home: the coldest of the brown dwarf family of "failed" stars. Now, just as scientists are "meeting and greeting" the new…
China completed its first manned space docking on Monday, June 18, 2012 as a spacecraft carrying three astronauts successfully coupled with an orbiting module, in a major milestone for its ambitious space programme.The docking to Tiangong-1 space lab was done by
On June 16, 2012 People’s Republic of China (PRC) successfully launched their first manned crew to Tiangong-1 space lab. Not only will this soon become their own space station but this is the mission when first Chinese woman was sent to space.Chang Wanquan, Chief
Data from NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft indicate that the venerable deep-space explorer has encountered a region in space where the intensity of charged particles from beyond our solar system has markedly increased. Voyager scientists looking at this rapid rise draw
Newly-discovered asteroid 2012 LZ1 is flying past the Earth-Moon system today. At closest approach on June 14th (23:10 UT), this 300 – 700 meter-wide space rock will be 14 lunar distances (5 310 835.2 km, 3.3 million miles) away. A team of astronomers led by Ernesto
Sunspot 1504 poses a growing threat for Earth-directed M-class solar flares and continues to expand into a large-sized sunspot cluster. Now spans the size of at least 4 planet Earths.It erupted in southern hemisphere on June 13th at 13:19 UTC, producing a
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array – NuSTAR was launched into the morning skies over the central Pacific Ocean at 9 a.m. PDT (16:00 UTC) Wednesday, June 13, 2012 beginning its mission to unveil secrets of hidden black holes, exploded stars and other exotic
