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01/25/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Man-made meteor: New estimates put China’s doomed space station, with toxic chemicals on board, crash landing back to Earth in about 3 months — with many toxins surviving re-entry

In 2016, the Chinese Space Agency conceded that it had lost contact and control of the Tiagong-1, China’s first prototype space station. Officials hypothesized that reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere would occur sometime in 2017. Now, it has been estimated that the Tiagong-1 — which means “Heavenly Place — will finally crash into the earth […]

12/15/2017 / By Rita Winters

A look at how life ebbs and flows on our planet, from space

As their name defines their work, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) monitors space, searching for signs of life on other planets (in other galaxies), and discovers something new about our universe daily. But did you know that this agency also helps scientists understand our own planet? With high-tech satellites that capture images from […]

11/27/2017 / By Jayson Veley

When smart people say stupid things: Stephen Hawking claims overpopulation will turn Earth into a literal “ball of fire”

It’s certainly strange how sometimes even the most brilliant minds among us can come up with the most ridiculous ideas imaginable. Sir Isaac Newton, for example, believed that it was possible to see into the future by finding hidden clues and secrets within the Bible. William Herschel, who is credited with discovering the planet Uranus, […]

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