7 Earth-Like Planets Found Orbiting Single Star Scientists using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have found the largest group of earth-like planets circling a single star. A total of seven planets were observed orbiting TRAPPIST-1, a star located only about 40 light years from Earth. The discovery also set a record for the number of planets that were […]
Exoplanet Bonanza; Good Sleep = Less Stress; Help Find Planet 9
Posted February 23rd, 2017 at 4:25 pm (UTC-4)
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Odd Feature from Galactic Collision; Crack in the Magnetosphere; Smartphones Make Us Trust Less?
Posted November 5th, 2016 at 12:56 pm (UTC-4)
Galactic Fender-Bender Produces Eye-Lid Shaped Feature A team of astronomers say what started as a fender-bender between two galaxies has sent a torrent of stars and gas crashing through the center of one, which then produced a rare eyelid shaped star formation. Working with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in Chile, the astronomers identified […]
Study: Sun Plays Role in Lightning Strikes
Posted June 2nd, 2014 at 7:31 pm (UTC-4)
Lightning is one of nature’s most spectacular and mysterious phenomena, yet there is much scientists still don’t know about it. British researchers have found evidence that high-energy particles, which are blown toward Earth on the solar wind, play a role in triggering lightning on Earth. These energized solar particles can travel from the sun at […]
New Dating System Could Reveal Secrets of Earth’s Ancient Climate
Posted April 21st, 2014 at 7:51 pm (UTC-4)
Scientists have a new tool in the quest to learn more about Earth’s ancient climate, including the mechanisms that plunged our planet into and out of ice ages. The new tool is a scientific technique called radiometric krypton dating, which recently allowed researchers to accurately determine the age of a 120,000-year-old Antarctic ice core sample. […]
Mars Mission Could Accelerate Alzheimer’s in Astronauts
Posted January 2nd, 2013 at 8:23 pm (UTC-4)
Traveling into deep space could accelerate the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, an incurable form of dementia, according to a new report. The NASA-funded study assessed how cosmic radiation would impact the astronauts throughout their trip in deep space. The effect of cosmic radiation on the human body has been a concern for the US space agency as […]