[ad_1] Jupiter and Saturn to form closest ‘great conjunction’ in 800 yearsWGHP FOX 8 Greensboro Jupiter and Saturn reunite in December for rare planetary alignment never seen since the Middle AgesWSB Atlanta Jupiter and Saturn to form closest ‘great conjunction’ 800 years from now next monthKTLA Jupiter and Saturn are about to appear closer in … Read more
[ad_1] Scientists are trying to determine if a possible sign of life seen in the clouds of Venus is really there. Why is this important: The news that researchers may have spotted a signal from gaseous phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus was greeted with enthusiasm by the public and scientists, heralded as a possible … Read more
[ad_1] The caldera inside Yellowstone National Park is nicknamed a supervolcano because of its ability to inflict untold global devastation in the event of a supereruption. It formed during the last three major events over the past 2.1 million years, with the most recent eruption of Lava Creek occurring around 630,000 years ago. Located under … Read more
[ad_1] Storm season Billions of years ago, Mars may have been buried under powerful and gigantic mega-floods. In recent years, scientists have discovered evidence of a significant amount of water on and under the surface of Mars. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg: research published this month in the Nature newspaper Scientific reports … Read more
[ad_1] Taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, this moon image is part of the highest resolution collection of near-global topographic maps of the moon ever. Some of the hot spots identified for cosmological telescopes on the moon are superimposed on this image; few ideal locations for these telescopes exist on the moon, as others conflict … Read more
[ad_1] Curiosity rover finds evidence of ancient mega-flooding on MarsYahoo Tech Ancient Martian megaflood: flooding of unimaginable magnitude once washed through the Gale crater on the equator of MarsSciTechDaily MOXIE Could Help Future Rockets Launch Off Mars – NASA’s Mars Exploration ProgramNASA exploration on Mars Curiosity has shown that Mars experienced a mega-flood which leads … Read more
[ad_1] Few telescopes will receive an emotional response from the general public when it is finally announced that they will be decommissioned. In the case of the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, the past few months have seen not only astronomers, but also countless people around the world anxiously awaiting after the first reports … Read more
[ad_1] A Falcon 9 rocket pulls away from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base on Tuesday evening. Credit: SpaceX The 100th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket put 60 satellites into orbit for SpaceX’s Starlink network on Tuesday night, adding another building block to a planned fleet of thousands of solar-powered space relay … Read more
[ad_1] DALLAS (AP) – As nurse Teri Wheat toured a maternity hospital in Texas, she began to realize that she was struggling to understand new mothers wearing masks due to the coronavirus pandemic. So she had her hearing tested and now wears hearing aids. Her hearing loss “became more noticeable as we had to have … Read more
[ad_1] A Falcon 9 launch can typically carry around 60 Starlink satellites. SpaceX SpaceX launched the 16th batch of its Starlink broadband satellites from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Tuesday evening, setting a record for its Falcon 9 rockets. Boosting a new group of its orbiting routers has become a matter of routine for Elon … Read more