Tropical cyclone ‘maximum intensity’ is shifting toward poles
(NOAA) – Over the past 30 years, the location where tropical cyclones reach maximum intensity has been shifting toward the poles in both the northern and southern hemispheres at a…
New Crater found on Mars by MRO
Researchers have discovered on the Red Planet the largest fresh meteor-impact crater ever firmly documented with before-and-after images. The images were captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The…
Camelopardalids Meteor shower could produce 1000 per hour! TODAY
(NASA) Step outside and take a look at the skies on the evening of May 23 into the early morning of May 24. Scientists are anticipating a new meteor shower,…
Planet Hunter Kepler new mission APPROVED!
The Kepler Spacecraft has found more planets than any other mission in history. After completing it’s primary mission it experienced reaction wheel failures during an extended life mission and could…
Jupiter’s Giant Red Spot Shrinking, Could Disappear
(NASA) If you have not taken the time to look through a telescope at the Giant Red Spot on Jupiter you should do it, if you wait to long it…
More rapid, four foot sea level rise could be unstoppable due to Antarctica Glacier Melt
In some rather disturbing news a new study by researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, finds a rapidly melting section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears…
Unusual Square Coronal hole on the Sun – Video
An unusual coronal hole, almost square in its shape, was spotted on the sun (May 5-7, 2014). A coronal hole is an area where high-speed solar wind streams into space. It…
New – See Live Streaming Video of Earth from HD IIS Cameras
The High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment places four commercially available HD cameras on the exterior of the space station and uses them to stream live video of Earth for…
