Sept. 9, 2010: In a paper published today in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, a group of professional and amateur astronomers announced that Jupiter is getting hit surprisingly often by small asteroids, lighting up the giant planet’s atmosphere with frequent fireballs. Full Story… View the movie… Share it!
Melbourne, Aug 26 (ANI): Astronomers are predicting that a massive solar storm, much bigger in potential than the one that caused spectacular light shows on Earth earlier this month, is to strike our planet in 2012 with a force of 100 million hydrogen bombs. Full Story… The good news Christians is that I don’t believe [...]
The show begins at sundown when Venus, Saturn, Mars and the crescent Moon pop out of the western twilight in tight conjunction. All four heavenly objects will fit within a circle about 10 degrees in diameter, beaming together through the dusky colors of sunset. No telescope is required to enjoy this naked-eye event: sky map. [...]
NASA-funded researchers are monitoring a big event in our planet’s atmosphere. High above Earth’s surface where the atmosphere meets space, a rarefied layer of gas called "the thermosphere" recently collapsed and now is rebounding again. Layers of Earth’s upper atmosphere. Credit: John Emmert/NRL. [larger image] "This is the biggest contraction of the thermosphere in [...]
Lost: A giant belt of brown clouds big enough to swallow Earth twenty times over. If found, please return to Jupiter. Full NASA Story… Share it!
The fight over global warming science is about to cross the Atlantic with a U.S. researcher poised to sue NASA, demanding release of the same kind of climate data that has landed a leading British center in hot water over charges it skewed its data. Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, [...]
October 19, 2009: The Orionid meteor shower peaks this week and it could be a very good show. "Earth is passing through a stream of debris from Halley’s Comet, the source of the Orionids," says Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office. "Flakes of comet dust hitting the atmosphere should give us dozens of meteors [...]
September 29, 2009: Planning a trip to Mars? Take plenty of shielding. According to sensors on NASA’s ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer) spacecraft, galactic cosmic rays have just hit a Space Age high. "In 2009, cosmic ray intensities have increased 19% beyond anything we’ve seen in the past 50 years," says Richard Mewaldt of Caltech. "The [...]
WASHINGTON — NASA is charged with seeking out nearly all the asteroids that threaten Earth, but a new federal report says the space agency doesn’t have the money to do the job. Full Story… Share it!
In a celestial feat any magician would appreciate, Saturn will make its wide but thin ring system disappear from our view Aug. 11. Saturn’s rings, loaded with ice and mud, boulders and tiny moons, is 170,000 miles wide. But the shimmering setup is only about 30 feet thick. The rings harbor 35 trillion-trillion tons of [...]