Space

It is commonly said that Neptune is azure blue and Uranus pale cyan green – but a new study shows the two ice giants are actually far closer in color than typically thought. Because Uranus’ appearance and color has changed over the decades in response to t ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 4 2024 - 8:42pm

Herds And Shepherds In Cosmology

The Universe is very large, and we are very small compared to it, not only in size. Creating a cosmology that attempts to explain the whole existing Universe is an obsession shared by all cultures. We think we now have the true cosmological model, like ma ...

Article - Martín López Corr... - Jan 19 2024 - 1:41pm

Avi Loeb And Aliens: The Right And Wrong of Science Funding. (Also Bing Image Search Brings up Porno When you Search for him)

A vi Loeb he prolific Harvard astrophysicist, dances on the edge of cosmic controversy. His research spans black holes, gamma-ray bursts, and the early universe, but it’s his extraterrestrial musings that have set tongues wagging. What he is right about i ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Mar 11 2024 - 12:46pm

How Is The Date Of Easter Calculated? The Science Answer

If you Google calculating the date of Easter, you are likely to get any number of top responses from SEO-friendly content farms that go something like "Easter is the first Sunday after the first full Moon following the vernal equinox", which is g ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 30 2024 - 10:37am

Could There Be Life On Saturn's Moons? New Discovery By Cassini Spacecraft Raises Hopes

Life may be common amongst the stars, but perhaps very far away. But new research published in Nature hints that it could be much closer than we expected. And it may be on a world of water and ice. It seems that in a posthumous gift to humanity, the celeb ...

Article - Benjamin Janaway - Apr 19 2024 - 3:58pm

Ten Reasons NOT To Live On Mars- Great Place To Explore

Mars is a fascinating planet, the most like Earth of all the planets in the solar system, and may help us to understand much about the origins of life on Earth. Undoubtedly, it's a wonderful place to explore, especially with augmented reality vision. ...

Blog Post - Robert Walker - Apr 30 2024 - 3:40am

The Northern Lights Seen As Far South As Arizona. G5 Magnetic Storm To Continue Through Sunday.

T he northern lights as one would expect and see them if they were in the frozen reaches of Canada, Scandanavia, or Russia, maybe and maybe not. However, a glow in the sky unlike anything most of us will see in the 48 contiguous United States of America ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - May 11 2024 - 8:01am

Robert Zubrin's Credible Proposal to Save the ISS From Destruction.

R obert Zubrin, a great Aerospace Engineer and advocate for human space exploration, has a credible proposal to move the ISS to higher orbits around the Earth under its own power using electric propulsion. This would not be a fast process, but it would n ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jun 28 2024 - 10:50am

The Sound Of Martian Winds

Mars is no vacation paradise. The temperatures fluctuate dramatically and average minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit. The surface is red dust punctuated by craters, canyons, and volcanoes. On the plus side, the atmosphere is extremely thin, comprising only about ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2024 - 11:03am

Thanks To 2024 PT5, Earth Now Has Two Moons