Killer Asteroid Near Miss November This Year

Mark your calendars for an impressive and upcoming flyby of an asteroid that’s one of the larger potentially perilous space rocks in the heavens – in terms of smacking the Earth in the future.

Are You A Martian?

Are we all Martians? According to many planetary scientists, it's conceivable that all life on Earth is descended from organisms that originated on Mars and were carried here aboard meteorites. If that's the case, an instrument being developed by researchers at MIT and Harvard could provide the clinching evidence.

Doomsday 65 Million B.C.

It was a warm, typical tropical day in the Yucatan Peninsula. Giant ferns and palm fronds swayed gently with the ocean breeze. Waves lapped lazily against the beach and wildlife was going about their daily business of finding food, or being food.

Suddenly, all eyes looked to the heavens to catch a horrifying glimpse of a blazing fireball, blotting out the sun and streaking down toward the ocean. An instant later, a white hot flash of superheated gasses scoured the Earth with temperatures near the heat of the sun in every direction for over 200 miles.