Tag: Earth
Earth headed to another major ‘mass extinction’?
MANHATTAN: Whether humanity has pushed the planet into a "mass extinction" event may be a matter of definition, but by any measure, the rate...
VIDEO: Kaukab Noorani defies science, says earth can’t revolve
Eminent religious scholar Kaukab Noorani has expressed his disbelief in the widely-accepted scientific fact that earth orbits around the sun in a video which...
Mars makes its closest encounter to Earth in 15 years
Earth's neighboring planet, Mars, is closer than it has been in the past 15 years, offering unusually bright views of the Red Planet's auburn...
One-third American millennials buy flat Earth theory
Only about two-thirds of the American millennials consider Earth to be round while the rest buy the flat Earth conspiracy theory, according to a...
Astronomers detect evidence of earliest-known stars
WASHINGTON: A ground-based radio antenna in Western Australia that resembles a dining room table has detected evidence of the earliest-known stars that illuminated an...
Cosmonaut, two US astronauts return to Earth from ISS
Two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth on Wednesday, rounding off a mission of more than five months aboard the International...
Small asteroid to pass by Earth, but at a safe distance
MIAMI: An asteroid bigger than a city bus is on track to zoom by Earth Friday at a safe but close distance, less than...
New research reveals trappist planets may be habitable
PARIS: Seven planets recently spotted orbiting a dim star in our Milky Way galaxy are rocky, seem to have water, and are potentially "habitable",...
Great American solar eclipse creates waves on earth’s upper atmosphere
WASHINGTON: During the Great American Solar Eclipse in August 2107, the moon's shadow travelled across the United States, so fast that it created waves...
New photo shows moon might be farther away than we think
A new photo from NASA may help dispel the misconceptions about the moon's distance from planet Earth, according to NBC news. Captured by NASA’s...
Life on Earth may date back 3.95 bn years: study
Paris: Rudimentary life may have existed on Earth 3.95 billion years ago, a time when our infant planet was being bombarded by comets and...
Silent killer: Sweltering planet braces for deadly heat shocks
LONDON: When Hurricane Harvey blasted ashore in August, drowning south Texas in a year’s worth of rain in just a few days, it left...
Sore, but no taller, astronaut Scott Kelly adjusts to Earth
US astronaut Scott Kelly said Friday he is battling fatigue and super-sensitive skin, but is back to his normal height after nearly a year...
Three astronauts make successful night landing on Earth
Three astronauts, from the United States, Russia and Japan, on Friday successfully completed a rare nighttime landing on Earth in the wintry Kazakh steppe...
Huge asteroid on near-collision course with Earth
A 1,000-metre wide asteroid will make a relatively close but harmless pass by Earth on Friday, according to NASA.
The object called ‘2014-YB35’ is travelling...
Saudi cleric claims Earth is stationary, does not revolve around Sun
A Saudi cleric in a recent video rejected the theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun and claimed that the opposite is true,...
Asteroid that flew past Earth has small moon: NASA
The asteroid that flew past the Earth Jan 26 has its own small moon, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said.
In the first radar...
