Two new Earth Like Planets added to the Habitability List
The Kepler Telescope has found three more Earth like planets in two solar systems. The new Kepler-62 system has five planets 62b-f. Kepler-69 system has two planets 69b and c….
Antares launch viewable from much of east coast April 17
The East coast of the United States is in for a treat. The Goddard Space Flight Center Wallops Island facility has built a new launch complex from which they intend…
Lyrids Meteor Shower 2013, Viewing and Information.
The Lyrid meteor shower is due to arrive April 22nd. Expect to see approximately 10-20 meteors per hour at the peak of the shower. The event begins on April 16…
Parachute from Curiosity Flapping in the Martian Breeze
File this under not so scientific but kind of cool. These images show the Mars Science Laboratory parachute from the vantage point of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as it passed overhead. There…
First Antares Wallops Virginia Launch April 17th
Launch will be seen buy much of East Coast Washington D.C. area. Orbital Sciences has been preparing to make the inaugural launch from the new Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A Wallops launch complex in Wallops Island Va.The first fully-integrated…
Hubble has found the farthest supernova so far.
Hubble Breaks Record in Search for Farthest Supernova (Source NASA) – The Hubble Space Telescope which last year saw further back in time than ever before and helped detect…
NOAA – Global warming will further intensify extreme precipitation
(Source NOAA)- According to a new NOAA-led study in Geophysical Research Letters, as the globe warms from rising atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, more moisture in a warmer atmosphere will make the…
Clouds “Just Right” for 2012 Greenland Ice Sheet Melt
According to a new study by scientists at NOAA and the Universities of Wisconsin, Idaho and Colorado, clouds over the central Greenland Ice Sheet last July were “just right” for…
