[ad_1] The recently discovered asteroid 2021 PH27 is about 1 km (3,280 feet) in diameter and orbits the Sun in just 113 days – the shortest known orbital period for an asteroid and the second shortest for any object in our solar system after Mercury. Asteroid 2021 PH27 was imaged inside Mercury’s orbit and has … Read more
[ad_1] The Boring Company (TBC) has met with Cameron County officials to discuss the possibility of a tunnel project from South Padre Island (SPI) to Boca Chica Beach. The Boring Company pitched the idea for an SPI-Boca Chica tunnel to Cameron County Administrator Pete Sepulveda Jr. and County Engineer Benjamin Worsham in early summer. Cameron … Read more
[ad_1] A former camp where Neanderthals organized “hunting parties” to track down large bovids and deer 76,000 years ago has been discovered in Madrid. Covering an area of 3,200 square feet (300 m2), archaeologists believe it could be the largest such camp in the Iberian Peninsula region. They believe he may have served as an … Read more
[ad_1] As if we don’t have enough worries here on Earth, the sun is starting to act. A sunspot, officially called AR2859, erupted in a magnificent explosion on Tuesday. Solar activity is part of a multi-day event that could cause what is called a “coronal mass ejection” to the planet. Coronal mass ejection, abbreviated CME, … Read more
[ad_1] The various social networks run by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) often present people with different incredible messages that leave them speechless. From images of our neighboring planets to viewing videos of distant galaxies, their shares are of different kinds. There is now one final inclusion to their list of wonderful messages … Read more
[ad_1] But he will have to pay for it himself. Vision of the hammer Among the local Texans who live near SpaceX’s Boca Chica Starbase facility, one of the biggest complaints is that the company frequently blocks the highway when shipping rocket parts or shuts it down completely for launches, cutting off potential travelers to … Read more
[ad_1] NASA postponed a spacewalk on Tuesday after one of the astronauts due to his work outside the International Space Station had a “pinched nerve” in his neck. US astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Japanese Akihiko Hoshide were hoping to step out into the void at 12:30 UTC on August 24. The two were instructed … Read more
[ad_1] Venus is Earth’s twisted twin in many ways, what about on the sky-watching side? Sadly, stargazing is not great from the Venusian surface: the thick carbon dioxide atmosphere that covers the planet means there is no break in the clouds. But above those clouds – where, come to think of it, the conditions are … Read more
[ad_1] Credit: CC0 Public domain Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder have designed one of the most accurate stopwatches to date, not for timing Olympic sprinters and swimmers, but for counting single photons, or the tiny bundles of energy that make up the light. The team’s invention could lead to great improvements in … Read more
[ad_1] The Red Planet is less of a mystery to Earth viewers thanks to new photographs released by NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover, revealing jagged mountainous terrain some 392.72 million kilometers from Earth. The rover scaled a Martian mountain dubbed Mount Sharp, which is five miles high with a 96-mile-wide basin of the planet’s Gale crater. … Read more