Solar Probe Plus Will ‘Touch’ The Sun0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 4, 2017
NASA’s Solar Probe Plus will enter the sun’s corona to understand space weather using a Faraday cup developed by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Draper.

NASA’s Solar Probe Plus will enter the sun’s corona to understand space weather using a Faraday cup developed by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Draper.

Plans to continue a NASA mission to intercept a small asteroid will depend on a decision due by the end of April on NASA’s 2017 budget, an agency official said March 20.

Researchers from King’s College London have used a genetic scoring technique to predict reading performance throughout school years from DNA alone.

Scientists in Peru conducted experiments reminiscent of the 2015 Matt Damon film the Martian, creating similar conditions on Earth

It is clear now that a big fraction of the atmosphere of Mars was stripped away to space early in its history.

“In April 2016, I wrote about the 308-million-year-old Tully monster. It was about a foot long, had a squid-like diamond-shape tail and a long snout ending in a claw.” ~~ Dale Gnidovec

This weekend saw a new eruption from Kambalny in southern Kamchatka.

Ancient Sediments Tell a Story That Could Be Repeated

Voyager 1 has reached the end, ladies and gentlemen.

Understanding the limits on what microbial life can endure is important for preventing contamination of the Red Planet with terrestrial microbes when our human and robotic explorers arrive.



