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This unprocessed image shows features in Saturn’s atmosphere from closer than ever before. The view of Saturn’s polar vortex was captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft during its first “Grand Finale” dive past the planet on April 26, 2017. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute NASA’s Cassini spacecraft sped through a gap between Saturn and its rings for […]
Stephen Hawking is giving humanity a tall order: Colonize Mars in the next century or watch as life on Earth fizzles out. After last year claiming that humans have 1,000 years left on Earth, Hawking says in a new documentary that we instead have about 100 years until we’ll need to jump ship as Earth […]
By Tom James (Reuters) – A crack that could create an iceberg the size of Delaware – and destabilize one of the largest ice shelves in the Antarctic – has branched out and begun to widen more quickly, a scientist said on Wednesday. The new fissure has turned toward the shelf’s […]
I am, of course, much concerned by overt denial, which has forestalled our progress for far too long already. But that’s not what scares me most either, even if it now roosts in places formerly thought high. Most people not frozen into a glacier for the past century know the climate is changing. Those so frozen are all […]
SpaceX has its sights set on Mars, but that doesn’t mean it has forgotten about Earth. Elon Musk’s company yesterday outlined its plan to put a network of internet-providing satellites around our planet, stating in a Senate hearing on broadband infrastructure that it wanted to start sending the craft into space in 2019, before the […]
The space between Saturn and its rings is eerily silent: Researchers monitoring the Cassini spacecraft were surprised to encounter almost no dust and debris during the spacecraft’s first dramatic dive through the gap, and you can hear the strange lack of impacts in a new NASA video. Today (May 1), the craft […]
An aerial view of the Larsen C ice rift. (John Sonntag/NASA) Another branch has appeared in a huge crack on one of Antarctica’s largest ice shelves, and scientists fear it’s only a matter of time before a huge chunk — potentially containing up to 2,000 square miles of ice — breaks away. If this happens, the […]
A haunting video shows a gray whale defending her calf against a pod of killer whales. The aerial footage was taken by passengers on a Monterey Bay Whale Watch trip on April 30 in California. As can be seen in the video, the orcas start to make their move toward the calf, encircling the mother […]
Leisa Tyler/LightRocket via Getty Warming oceans bleach coral and have helped to explain a claimed global-warming pause. Climate-science denial is quick to recognize opportunity. And its action follows a predictable, two-stage pattern. Step one: invent a false narrative claiming that the mainstream scientific community expects climate change to proceed as an uninterrupted, ineluctable process. Step […]
reader comments 104 SpaceX today said its planned constellation of 4,425 broadband satellites will launch from the Falcon 9 rocket beginning in 2019 and continue launching in phases until reaching full capacity in 2024. SpaceX gave the Senate Commerce Committee an update on its satellite plans during a broadband infrastructure hearing this morning via testimony by VP of […]
