Idaho County Passes Emergency Declaration Ahead of Eclipse0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 3, 2017
Washington County Commissioners have passed an Emergency Declaration ahead of the August 21 solar eclipse.
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Earth Will Have Its Last Total Solar Eclipse in About 600 Million Years0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 3, 2017
During the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, skywatchers will direct most of their attention to the sun, but don’t forget about the moon: Its slow progress away from Earth means these celestial events won’t keep happening forever.
Evidence mounts for an ocean on early Venus0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 3, 2017
Second planet from the sun may have been watery millions of years after its birth, simulations suggest
Milky Way’s origins are not what they seem0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 2, 2017
“Our origins are much less local than we previously thought,” said Faucher-Giguère, a CIERA member. “This study gives us a sense of how things around us are connected to distant objects in the sky.”
NASA Is Hiring a Full-Time ‘Planetary Protection Officer’ to Defend Earth From Aliens0
- From Around the Web, Space, UFO News
- August 1, 2017
The position pays up to $187K a year.
A Dying Star’s Explosive ‘Fireball’ Blast Aimed a Beam of Gamma Rays at Earth0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 1, 2017
One of the brightest gamma-ray bursts ever observed briefly released as much energy as the sun will emit over its lifetime, directing a narrow beam of gamma rays toward Earth by chance.
Senate restores funding for NASA Earth science and satellite servicing programs0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 1, 2017
NASA’s Restore-L mission would develop satellite servicing technology and refuel the Landsat 7 spacecraft.
Has Cassini found a universal driver for prebiotic chemistry at Titan?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 29, 2017
The international Cassini-Huygens mission has made a surprising detection of a molecule that is instrumental in the production of complex organics within the hazy atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan.
“Extinction by Ice” –Massive Comets From Oort Belt More Common Threat to Earth Than Previously Thought0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 29, 2017
“Comets travel much faster than asteroids, and some of them are very big,” said Amy Mainzer, co-author based at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, and principal investigator of the NEOWISE mission. “Studies like this will help us define what kind of hazard long-period comets may pose.”
Tides on exoplanets could drive alien biological clocks0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 29, 2017
Worlds with a permanent day and night side aren’t obvious places to look in the search for extraterrestrial life. Apart from having extremes of temperature, such planets would make it hard for a biological clock to get going.
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