Space

The Most Volcanically Active Body In Our Solar System Is Not Earth, It's Jupiter's Moon Io. But Elsewhere...

Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active body in our solar system but 550 light years away in the inconspicuous constellation of Lepus, underneath the bright Orion constellation, an exo-Io could be hidden at the exoplanet system WASP-49b.  Th ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 29 2019 - 5:32pm

Ignore Fake Asteroid Alerts For Didymos Or Apophis- Also How To Detect 100% Of Asteroids In Advance Like Hurricanes

This is me according to the Daily Express. End of world: Scientist’s terrifying warning of apocalypse asteroid- ‘Would boil oceans!’ It is nonsense! I gave no warning, and as a science blogger I am not the person to issue a warning either. I wrote an arti ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 6 2019 - 7:23am

I Said Jupiter PROTECTS Us From Ocean Boiling Asteroid- Google News- Please Stop Running Daily Express NONSENSE

This is me according to the Daily Express. End of world: Scientist’s terrifying warning of apocalypse asteroid- ‘Would boil oceans!’ It is nonsense! I gave no warning, and as a science blogger I am not the person to issue a warning either. I wrote an arti ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 6 2019 - 7:48am

Asteroid 2006 QV89 Classified NO HAZARD- Expected To Miss- Most Likely Next Asteroid Impact- Harmless Splosh In Ocean

This asteroid is now known to miss. It was always classified as NO HAZARD so it was no surprise at all when they proved it couldn’t hit. UPDATE- they proved it would miss in July through non detection. On July 4th and 5th they focused on the small patch o ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 8 2019 - 1:12pm

No Asteroid Warning For 2007 FT3- What NASA's Sentry Table Says In Words- Are You Scared By Fake Asteroid News?

This may help with this and other fake asteroid news. It's a no hazard asteroid. There is no NASA warning at all. They have already removed 88 "no hazard" asteroids from their table so far this year. It’s a 11 million to one against, and it ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 8 2019 - 4:04pm

2006 QV89 Asteroid- NO HAZARD- Most Likely Next Impact Splosh In Pacific- In Pictures, For Panicking People And Children

This asteroid is now known to miss. It was always classified as NO HAZARD so it was no surprise at all when they proved it couldn’t hit. UPDATE- they proved it would miss in July through non detection. On July 4th and 5th they focused on the small patch o ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 9 2019 - 11:21am

Strontium Born From Neutron Star Collision Detected In Space- And What It Means

ESO’s X-shooter spectrograph on the Very Large Telescope in Chile has detected a freshly made heavy element, strontium, in space, in the aftermath two merging neutron stars.  That sounds obscure but it means that the heavier elements in the Universe can fo ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 23 2019 - 12:00pm

1.26 Kilometer Diameter Asteriod 2010 GD37 Will NOT Hit In December 2019- REMOVED From Risk Table, NASA Did Not Issue Warning

UPDATE: 2010 GD37 is now REMOVED from the risk list- it turns out that it's just an ordinary main belt asteroid. 2010 GD37 is now REMOVED from the risk list ...

Article - Robert Walker - Oct 28 2019 - 5:37pm

Likely 2040 Before Mars Samples Returned Safely, Legally-Yet Not Likely To Return Life- Needs To Be Detected In Situ First

ESA have just signed a letter of intent to co-operate with NASA on a Mars sample return mission (see Agencies aim to bring back rocks from Mars). I hope this does not mean a change of focus for ESA, from in situ searches, to a sample return. This expensiv ...

Article - Robert Walker - Nov 5 2019 - 12:26pm

Fake Asteroid Impact Meme By The Daily Express- Invented Dates And Probabilites For 2014 JO25, And 2014 AG5

The Daily Express run this fake meme on many of their fake asteroid stories. It is riddled with errors and outright lies. The red top tabloid papers in the UK are well known for just making stuff up. The most famous red top tabloid story which ran in The ...

Article - Robert Walker - Nov 15 2019 - 6:50pm