[ad_1] This site can earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Astronomers are getting very good at chasing exoplanets with a little help from powerful telescopes from land and space. We no longer find a planet here and there – we discover entire solar systems. TRAPPIST-1 has been of particular … Read more
[ad_1] Would it be surprising to find a rocky planet that dates back to the very beginning of the Universe? It should be. The first Universe lacked the heaviest elements needed to form rocky planets. But astronomers have found one, right here in the Milky Way. After the Big Bang, the Universe was only composed … Read more
[ad_1] Sunlight shines on the snow-capped peaks of the Gerlache Strait in Antarctica. Andrew Peacock / iStock.com By Tess JoosseJan. 26, 2021 at 3:40 p.m. Researchers have discovered a common Martian mineral deep in an Antarctic ice core. The discovery suggests that the mineral – a brittle, yellow-brown substance known as jarosite – was forged … Read more
[ad_1] Thanks to its flexibility and grip, the biodegradable screen can be worn directly on the hand. Credit: Manuel Pietsch, KIT Over the next few years, the increasing use of electronic devices in consumables and new technologies for the Internet of Things will increase the amount of electronic waste. To save resources and minimize waste … Read more
[ad_1] February 18, 2021, if everything is going according to plan, NASA’s Perseverance rover will land on Mars. While he searches for signs of past habitability, Ingenuity – a tiny experimental solar-powered helicopter that hitchhikes on its underside – will attempt to demonstrate the possibility of flying into another world for the very first time. … Read more
[ad_1] ESA and NASA Solar Orbiter took the images of Venus, Earth, and Mars used in this GIF on November 18, 2020. ESA / NASA / NRL / Solar Orbiter / SolOHI Here on Earth, we’re used to looking and spotting other planets in our solar system, but it’s telling when our mechanical emissaries stare … Read more
[ad_1] The Starliner crew module for the unmanned Orbital Flight Test-2 mission was docked to its service module Jan. 14 inside the commercial crew and cargo processing facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: Boeing / John Proferes The US Space Force has decided to delay the planned launch in late February of two … Read more
[ad_1] The babies of a ferocious group of carnivorous dinosaurs, which included the T-rex, were huge, fully toothed and clawed and “born ready” to kill, according to analysis of recently discovered embryonic remains. The fossils belong to two species of the group called Tyrannosaurs, the main predators of Asia and North America during the Cretaceous … Read more
[ad_1] The first full moon of 2021 rises this week. January’s full moon, known as the Wolf Moon, will reach its full phase at 2:16 p.m. on Thursday, January 28. We won’t see it until it gets up at 5:07 p.m. (and even then the Lehigh Valley weather forecast a mostly cloudy sky), but it … Read more
[ad_1] The rate of loss fell from 0.8 trillion tonnes per year in the 1990s to 1.3 trillion tonnes per year in 2017, with potentially disastrous consequences. The speed at which ice is disappearing around the world corresponds to “worst case scenarios of global warming,” British scientists have warned in new research. A team from … Read more