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Asteroid 2024 YR4, first spotted in December 2024 by a Chilean telescope, originally alarmed scientists due to its likelihood of striking Earth in 2032. It rose to the top of the Torino Impact Hazard Scale, prompting a wave of international monitoring. Recent observations have ruled out the...

In an exciting development for astronomy enthusiasts, the Blaze Star, situated 3,000 light-years from Earth, is anticipated to explode soon, promising a unique spectacle in the night sky. What Happened: The star system T Coronae Borealis, commonly known as the Blaze Star, is on the brink of a nova...

Coronal holes — areas on the Sun's corona, or outermost atmosphere — are not actual "holes." They're areas of lower density and temperature, where the magnetic field opens and allows hot plasma to stream out into space. Just weeks after NASA's Solar...

NASA flagged a new asteroid last week named 2023 DW and said that it has the potential to impact Earth in 2046. What Happened: NASA said that they have been tracking the 2023 DW, which has a small chance of impacting the Earth in 2046. The asteroid, with an average estimated diameter of 50.3 meter...

A recent study by Princeton researchers, ostentatiously titled Epidemiological Modeling of Online Social Network Dynamics, concluded that, like many infectious diseases, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) would eventually die. In response, Facebook researchers, using the same type of data used by those at...