Louisiana Tech Physics Professor Lee Sawyer talked with Dennis Foley and I in detail about a 150-foot, 130,000 metric ton asteroid that's flying close to Earth this afternoon. He says there's no reason to fear.
An enormous and explosive mass of electrically charged solar plasma – known as a coronal mass ejection, or CME – exploded from the sun’s atmosphere a few days ago and is moving closer and closer to Earth.
Today a base-jumper named Felix Baumgartner attempted a record-breaking high altitude jump from the place where the Earth's atmosphere ends and space begins.
As a way to promote its show ‘Chasing UFOs’ and potentially impress aliens with our highly-advanced Twitter technology, the National Geographic Channel will broadcast tweets into the deepest recesses of space this coming August.