Space
-
'Nihao Mars': China's Zhurong Rover Touches Down On Red Planet | Sébastien Ricci
Mars (seen in an image released on March 3, 2021 taken by China's Tianwen-1 probe which carried the rover) is the the most prestigious of all prizes in the competition for dominion of space. May 15, 2021 (AFP) -- China's probe to Mars touched down on the Red Planet early Saturday to deploy its Zhurong rover, state media reported, a triumph for Beijing's increasingly bold space ambitions and a his ...
-
Moderate Geomagnetic Storm Watch For Sunday 25 April 2021 | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
April 22, 2021 (NOAA) -- NOAA issued a G2 (moderate) geomagnetic storm watch for Sunday 25 April 2021. A partial halo Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) was associated with a C3 flare from Region 2816 at 22 ...
-
The Grand Mutation: An Astrological Interlude | John Michael Greer
Dec. 23, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- Over the last year, and especially over the last month, I’ve fielded a flurry of questions about the astrological meaning of the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn tha ...
-
War of the Worlds: The Original Fake News October Surprise — Mickey Z.
Still image from the 2005 version of War of the Worlds (credit unknown) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust October 29, 2020 26 percent of Americans believe the sun revolves around the earth. *** October 3 ...
-
Hubble and Gaia accurately weigh the Milky Way | ESA/Hubble Information Center
This artist's impression shows a computer-generated model of the Milky Way and the accurate positions of the globular clusters used in this study surrounding it. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, L. Calçada ...
-
Methane in the atmosphere is surging, and that's got scientists worried | Julia Rosen
Photo of landfill burnoff flare. Credit: Eddie Hagler/Public Domain March 4, 2019 (Phys.org) -- Scientists love a good mystery. But it's more fun when the future of humanity isn't at stake. This enig ...
-
A break from the buzz—bees go silent during total solar eclipse | Candace Galen
A study conducted during the 2017 total solar eclipse in North America found that bees remained active during the partial-eclipse phases both before and after the period of totality, but they essenti ...
-
The early universe was a fluid quark-gluon plasma | You Zhou
Fig. 1 An event from the first Xenon-Xenon collision at the Large Hadron Collider at the top energy of the Large Hadron Collider (5.44 TeV ) registered by ALICE . Every colored track (The blue lines) ...
-
New extremely distant solar system object found during hunt for Planet X | Scott Sheppard, Chad Trujillo and David Tholen
The orbits of the new extreme dwarf planet 2015 TG387 and its fellow Inner Oort Cloud objects 2012 VP113 and Sedna as compared with the rest of the Solar System. 2015 TG387 was nicknamed 'The Goblin' ...
-
Astronomers detect synchronous X-ray and radio mode switching of the pulsar PSR B0823+26 | Tomasz Nowakowski
GMRT observation at 325 MHz of PSR B0823+26 on 2017 April 20, showing as a typical example PSR B0823+26 in B mode during 2500 single-pulse sequences, or ∼ 22 minutes of the total duration of ∼ 7.5 ho ...
-
Study finds flaw in emergent gravity | Lisa Zyga
Illustration of a three-dimensional hypersurface. Credit: Wang and Braunstein. Published in Nature Communications Aug. 10, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A new paper undermines a key assumption of the theory of ...
Page 1 of 7