Comet ISON Doesn't Survive Close Encounter with the Sun
Despite the high hopes of scientists and stargazers around the world, Comet ISON did not survive its close encounter with the sun on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 2013.
ISON Seen again after its Encounter with Our Sun
After a journey full of surprises since it was discovered last year, fading and bursting back with a vivid tail, comet ISON surprised scientists and sky gazers alike one more time. In what was considered a final encounter with the sun, after ages of being drug by gravity from the outer reaches by our system's […]
World Awaits Comet's Fate as ISON Streaks Towards its Destiny with our Sun
With only 30% chance of surviving its Thanksgiving encounter with our sun, the comet ISON has the world's scientists and sky-gazers watching with bated breath for what could be a spectacular sight as it comes back into view, or the end of the comet's life.
A Possible Cause of the End-Permian Mass Extinction: Lemon Juice?
MIT researchers find that rain as acidic as lemon juice may have contributed to massive die-offs on land 252 million years ago.