Friday’s full moon was the biggest and brightest full moon of the year, offering those with clear skies an opportunity to identify easy-to-see features on the moon.
Astronomy – Earth – Moon – Solar System – Planets
There’s a mystery in the skies of Earth: Something is producing bright flashes of gamma radiation in the upper atmosphere of our own planet. A new NASA-NSF mission called Firefly is going to investigate.
A new experiment that reproduces the magnetic fields of the Earth and other planets has yielded its first significant results. The findings confirm that its unique approach has some potential to be developed as a new way of creating a power-producin…
Living on a planet comes with certain advantages. Gravity, for instance. The only reason hot air rises on Earth is that colder, denser air will always fall to displace it upwards. On the International Space Station everyone has to sleep next to a fa…
Simulations of the conditions in the Alpha Centauri star system suggest Earth-like planets might exist there, but gas giants are unlikely
UN climate chief Yvo de Boer says recent scandals over climate data are unfortunate but don’t discredit the view that the earth is warming and humans must act.
A 56,000-year-old stalactite found in a New Mexican cave suggests global warming will likely lead to dramatic poleward shifts of Earth’s wettest storm-laden weather patterns.
Global warming – Earth – Climate change – Environment – Opposing Views
Humans and human activities have clearly altered the Earth’s landscape and oceans in countless ways, often to the detriment of other plants and animals. But a new report published online on January 28th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, sho…
Fainter broadcasting signals and digital switchover mean Earth will soon be undetectable to extraterrestrials
First the Old Man, now the Big Wind. New Hampshire’s Mount Washington has lost its distinction as the site of the fastest wind gust ever recorded on Earth, officials at the Mount Washington Observatory said Tuesday.