In the recent past, the magnetic North Pole has moved 34 miles a year toward Russia. The magnetic field reverses its polarity every several hundred thousand years, where the magnetic north pole resides at the geographic South Pole. New work…
Planet
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Since 2012, the European Space Agency has been working on the design of a mission to remove large space debris from orbit. A space ‘tow truck’ (artist’s impression, pictured) designed to remove dead satellited from Earth’s orbit has been commissioned…
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Physics and Astronomy
Astrophysical Journal Letters | Cross Section Of Neutron Star
by George Cronk December 15, 2019This particular neutron star is thought to have one of the strongest magnetic fields among the population of known pulsars: a few trillion times stronger than the magnetic field of the sun. The international research team’s results have been published…
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Environmental and Earth
A Massive Asteroid Hit Earth 66 Million Years Ago
by Steffen Kohl September 15, 2019Researchers estimate that at least 325 billion metric tons would have been released by the impact. So what could have led to the extinction of dinosaurs also caused global firestorms that ravaged planet Earth. The impact of the giant asteroid…
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As NASA makes a big push to land humans on the moon’s surface by 2024, the European Space Agency ( ESA ) wants to learn more about the lunar caves that lie beneath. The lunar expert said : ” Exploring…
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Physics and Astronomy
A Billion Years | That’s The Theory Behind The Big Bang
by George Cronk April 20, 2019Massive stars die show that stars like the sun weren’t made planetaries. You can picture a snap shot of the early Universe, somewhere around 100,000 years after the Big Bang. The problem in the early universe was, even though things were cooling down, molecular…
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MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) is a NASA-sponsored scientific investigation of the planet Mercury and the first space mission designed to orbit the planet closest to the Sun. As the MESSENGER spacecraft orbited the tiny planet, the…
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For 50 Years Through six different Apollo missions, astronauts brought back to Earth 842 pounds of rocks and soil from the moon. On Monday, during a speech about the White House’s proposed 2020 budget, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced that…
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Physics and Astronomy
Under General Relativity, A Black Hole Is Inescapable
by George Cronk January 25, 2019We Just Got Lab Made Evidence Of Stephen Hawking’s Greatest Prediction About Black Holes. Nothing, not even light, can escape from inside the event horizon. The black hole is the background spacetime for a quantum field theory. the heart of…
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Outer space
Artist’s Concept Of The Cassini Orbiter Crossing Saturn’s Ring Plane
by George Cronk January 24, 2019One of the last acts of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft before its death plunge into Saturn’s hydrogen and helium atmosphere was to coast between the planet and its rings and let them tug it around, essentially acting as a gravity probe.…