Kosmos 482 is 3.2 feet across and could make impact at about 150 mph, per one expert Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in ...
Scientists expect to get at least a cup of rubble from Bennu. The pristine samples are believed to be leftover building blocks from the dawn of our solar system. This illustration provided by NASA ...
As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.
An illustration of the ERS-2 satellite. European Space Agency After a nearly 30-year journey in space, a 5,000-pound European Space Agency (ESA) satellite, known as ERS-2 (European Remote Sensing 2), ...
A Soviet spacecraft that has been circling Earth for over 50 years is set to reenter the planet’s atmosphere next month and could crash into Earth’s surface, according to EarthSky.org. Kosmos 482 ...
A lost piece of space equipment crash landed on a farm in Texas, witnessed by a neighbor who saw the whole thing unfold. Here ...
The Serengeti looks largely like it did hundreds of years ago. Lions, hyenas and other top predators still stalk herds of wildebeests over a million strong, preventing them from eating too much ...
Almost half of the Earth’s land surface must be protected to stop the biodiversity crisis, according to a new report published Friday in the journal Science. The research found some 64 million square ...