Hiroshima

Earth had a dangerously close encounter yesterday with an asteroid, dubbed a 'city-killer,' that zoomed past it at 24 km/sec, and narrowly missed colliding into the Earth, according to scientists. The fast-moving asteroid was estimated to be between 187 feet …

On Thursday early morning, Earth had yet another close encounter with a giant asteroid. Yes, you read it right. Well, we were fortunate that the space rock named ‘2019 OK’ did not collide with Earth and just went past through our planet. A 328-feet-wide aster…

Earth nearly had a devastating collision with an asteroid travelling at nearly 15 miles a second today. Asteroid 2019 OK, estimated to be between 187 feet and 427 feet in diameter, came within 43,500 miles of striking the Earth closer than the moon. The ast…

An unexpected asteroid named 2019 OK just flew between Earth and the moon, hammering home the need for continued improvements in both finding and tracking potentially hazardous asteroids. (Credit: Illustration via Pixabay) Earth had a close encounter Thursda…

Tucked away in a corner of Yumenoshima Park in Tokyo, a ten-minute-walk away from Shin Kiba Station, is a tall A-frame building. Sitting inside on concrete floors and held aloft by metal supports is a weathered 94-foot long fishing boat. Today the boat is lar…

Earlier this month, obscured in all the fighting over President Trump's tweets, Irans seizure of a British tanker, and the emergency on the border, most of America missed the news that we all got a reprieve from a 100-foot-wide space rock. The rock in quest…

2004: I saw the nuclear plant from the window of the plane. We arrive in a small village, where an improvised museum was created. A sleepy young man take the five people to a room where there arte some artifacts, masks, and a projector connected to an old tel…

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY In May, there were reports that a “nuclear coffin” in the Marshall Islands is ready to crack open and leak radioactive fallout into the Pacific Ocean. Now there is an equally alarming report that Researchers at Columbia University…

A huge asteroid named 2019 NJ2 with a diameter of nearly 2017 feet will move towards Earth today. According to the NASAs CNEOS(Center For Near Earth Studies), asteroid 2019 NJ2, will reach its closes distance to Earth today at 7.53 pm (Standard Time). Repor…

Mr. Straight Arrow: The Career of John Hersey, Author of Hiroshima Jeremy Treglown Farrar, Straus and Giroux Apr 2019 Other There are, it could be said, two elements that distinguish the master journalist. First, the material they write must speak to…