Tag: comet

Watch the moon turn red during a total lunar eclipse in March

ASTRONOMY
A total lunar eclipse will flush the moon red Thursday night into Friday morning across the Western Hemisphere. The best views will be from North America and South America. Parts of Africa and Europe may catch a...

A longer, sleeker super predator: Study paints more accurate picture of megalodon’s true form

PALEONTOLOGY
The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white shark, but new research suggests that perception is all wrong. The study finds the prehistoric hunter had a much longer body—closer in shape to a...

Once in 50,000-year comet may be visible to the naked eye

ASTRONOMY
A newly discovered comet could be visible to the naked eye as it shoots past Earth and the Sun in the coming weeks for...

Scientists show how terrain evolves on an icy comet

ASTRONOMY
With an eye toward a possible return mission years in the future, Cornell astronomers have shown how smooth terrains—a good place to land a...

The comet that killed the dinosaurs

ASTRONOMY
It was tens of miles wide and forever changed history when it crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago. The Chicxulub impactor, as it’s...

Largest comet ever seen has a heart ‘blacker than coal,’ and it’s headed this way

ASTRONOMY
Astronomers have measured the icy heart of one of the largest comets ever discovered — a gargantuan, 4 billion-year-old rock that's currently barreling toward...

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