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Hubble Spots Moon Around Third Largest Dwarf Planet

By Csaba Kiss | Konkoly Observatory, Donna Weaver/ Ray Villard | Space Telescope Science Institute, John Stansberry | Space Telescope Science Institute on May 19, 2017   Featured, Science/Education  

Hubble Spots Moon Around Third Largest Dwarf Planet

The combined power of three space observatories, including NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, has helped astronomers uncover a moon orbiting the third largest dwarf planet, catalogued as 2007 OR10. The pair resides in the frigid outskirts of our solar system called the Kuiper Belt, a realm of icy debris left over from our solar system’s formation 4.6 billion years ago. […]

Asteroid to Fly Safely Past Earth on April 19

By DC Agle \ JPL on Apr 18, 2017   Featured, Science/Education  

Asteroid to Fly Safely Past Earth on April 19

A relatively large near-Earth asteroid discovered nearly three years ago will fly safely past Earth on April 19 at a distance of about 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers), or about 4.6 times the distance from Earth to the moon. Although there is no possibility for the asteroid to collide with our planet, this will […]

Discovery of Widespread Platinum May Help Solve Clovis People Mystery

By Peggy Binette | University of South Carolina on Mar 10, 2017   Featured, Science/Education  

Discovery of Widespread Platinum May Help Solve Clovis People Mystery

No one knows for certain why the Clovis people and iconic beasts — mastodon, mammoth and saber-toothed tiger — living some 12,800 years ago suddenly disappeared. However, a discovery of widespread platinum at archaeological sites across the U.S. by three University of South Carolina archaeologists has provided an important clue in solving this enduring mystery.  The research […]

How Darkness and Cold Killed the Dinosaurs

By Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research on Jan 14, 2017   Featured, Science/Education  

How Darkness and Cold Killed the Dinosaurs

  66 million years ago, the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs started the ascent of the mammals, ultimately resulting in humankind’s reign on Earth. Climate scientists now reconstructed how tiny droplets of sulfuric acid formed high up in the air after the well-known impact of a large asteroid and blocking the sunlight for several years, […]

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