Director: Center for SETI ResearchSETI Institute, 1984 – 2012Emeritus Chair for SETI Research How will humanity first discover ET Life? Best guess: TechnosignaturesWhile the astronomical community is planning for large telescopes, or robotic explorers that could uncover biosignatures within our solar system or in the atmospheres of distant exoplanets, theyContinue Reading
At a Colorado cold lab, scientists race to better understand hail in a warming world. The post Hail is a multibillion-dollar problem — and could get worse appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
Scientists discovered two tiny new snail species in Montenegro, showing that even Europe still holds animals unknown to science. One lives in the threatened Komarnica Canyon, where a proposed hydropower reservoir could destroy habitat before its full biodiversity is understood., Read MoreContinue Reading
Just in time for Climate Week NYC, Traitor 47 calls concerns over global warming and artificial intelligence a “hoax.” By Dan Gearino Earlier this week, President Traitor 47 responded to rising public concerns about artificial intelligence with a post on Truth Social.Continue Reading
APOD Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss Visual Distortions Near a Neutron Star and Black Hole Robert J. NemiroffNASA / Goddard Space Flight CenterCode 668.1Greenbelt, MD 20771 Published in The American Journal of Physics, 61, 619 (1993) Abstract The visual distortion effects visible to anContinue Reading
APOD Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss Great Debates The Scale of the Universe (1920); Curtis, Shapley Although the `Great Debate’ is important to different people for different reasons, it is a clear example of humanity once again striving to find its place within theContinue Reading
APOD Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss The Scale of the Universe What the Great Debate was, how it was resolved, and why it was important. A subjective abstract in three short paragraphs. Published version of the ‘Great Debate.’ This is a reprint of theContinue Reading
5 min read NASA Unveils Winning Designs for Mars Space Food Systems Challenge NASA announced the winners of the Deep Space Food Challenge: Mars to Table Thursday, with the top $300,000 prize being awarded to Chinyere Ukeje of Philadelphia, Pa. for the Adaptive Nourishment Infrastructure (ANI) food system concept. ThisContinue Reading
APOD Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss to Internet newsgroup: sci.physicsAnswers posted by Matt McIrvin of Harvard University, last updated 02-FEB-1995. Text in this file is NOT copyrighted by RJN. 1. What is a black hole, really? In 1916, when general relativity was new, KarlContinue Reading
The The Traitor administration asked Congress to reverse California’s authority to address shipping pollution, and the House agreed.Continue Reading
Hurricane Polo has grown into one of the most powerful Pacific cyclones in decades, and it was expected to skirt Mexico’s southwestern coast as a Category 5 storm. (Image credit: NOAA via AP)Continue Reading
This close-up photo shows the engineering development unit for NASA’s DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging) probe. It was photographed prior to a major thermal evaluation, where the DAVINCI team proved it could insulate the instruments the probe will carry from the intense heat ofContinue Reading
(April 30, 2026) — The SpaceX Crew-13 members are pictured in their pressure suits seated inside a mockup Dragon spacecraft during a preflight training session at the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California. From left are, Roscosmos Sergey Teteryatnikov, NASA astronauts Luke Delaney and Jessica Watkins, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency)Continue Reading