Science

There are many ways to the moon, and not all of them lead through the moon gate. This week the heads of the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) and the National Space Agency of China (CNSA) signed an agreement to work together on their own…

Guest essay by Eric Worrall If you alienate your base, don't expect them to be right for you. Australian Green Conservative leader Zak Kirkup even lost his own seat after walking on a platform that was building the country's largest…

The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) in northern Chile will collect its first light from the cosmos by 2029. As part of a new class of next generation instruments known as "Extremely Large Telescopes" (ELTs), GMT will combine the power of…

Reposted from the NoTricksZone By P Gosselin on March 12, 2021 Young people in Germany may be frustrated with bans and restrictions and may show signs of rebellion, as a comprehensive generational survey by the European Investment…

A red dwarf star named Gliese 1132 or GJ 1132 for short (astronomers for short and their funny nicknames!) Smolder in about 41 light years from the sun in the southern constellation Vela, only a few degrees from the southern cross. In…

Reposted by Polar Bear Science Posted on March 11, 2021 | In early February of this year, sea ice was much lower than usual on the Labrador coast and virtually non-existent in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, two important whelping…

If you want a cross-galaxy science fiction epic, you need to travel faster than light. The alternative is to take decades or centuries to reach an alien star system, which is nowhere near as fun. So you start with a wild scientific idea,…

From NASA March 11, 2021 This photo shows the view from the dome of NASA's infrared telescope facility during a night of observation. The 3.2-meter telescope on Hawaii's Mauna Kea is used to measure the infrared spectrum of…

Astronomers struggle to understand the discrepancies when measuring the rate of expansion of the universe by various methods and are desperate for a creative idea to resolve the tension. A new method involving some of the oldest stars in…

Reposted from Chris Martz Weather BY CHRIS MARTZ on 9 MAR 2021  “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”— Benjamin Franklin Meteorological Analysis Three weeks ago, a major cold snap and series of winter storms…