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Since 2005 until present day, the Earth's geographic North Pole has been steadily shifting towards the east. By the looks of it, the shift is one of several centimeters per year.
Although it is very much true that the Earth's geographic poles are not exactly fixed points and that they change their locatio... |
15 May 2013
03:02 GMT |
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Google has worked with the US Geological Survey, NASA, and Time to put together the most comprehensive and easily navigable online archive of historical images of our planet – every corner of our planet –, going back several decades. The images come from NASA's Landsat satellites which have been sur... |
9 May 2013
09:08 GMT |
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A team of researchers writing in this week's issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences say that they have finally figured out how our planet used to smell like several million years ago.
Long story short, these scientists maintain that, at some point in its early days, our planet ema... |
30 April 2013
10:17 GMT |
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Google rolled out a new update for Google Earth (7.1.1 beta), which includes new features for both the free and the Pro version. Common to both of them is support for LEAP Motion device, which allows users to control the images displayed on the computer screen through hand movements. Check out the video above for a ... |
23 April 2013
10:40 GMT |
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A mysterious lightning jet, appearing to burst towards the upper atmosphere in China in 2010, has recently been confirmed and documented by scientists. These lightening jets appear to shoot up towards the edge of space, but they are in fact directed towards the ionosphere. According to Our Amazing Planet, they usua... |
27 February 2013
03:43 GMT |
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A relatively large asteroid is set to come very close to Earth, in astronomical terms, though it will simply fly by. We're not going the way of the dinosaurs, just yet. But the opportunity is a great one to catch a glimpse of the asteroid up close.
Even a huge asteroid is too small for most people to be able to... |
14 February 2013
15:21 GMT |
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Britain is not used to snow, of any kind and even the lightest fall seems to send the country into a frenzy. But it seems that snow is becoming, if not a regular phenomenon, a not so rare one.
At this moment, almost the entire country is covered in snow making for a spectacular and very rare photograph of the UK fr... |
30 January 2013
13:51 GMT |
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NASA is very interested in the deep space, constantly pushing the limits of how far back we can see. But it's equally interested in our own backyard, including our sun and the Earth itself. What's more, observations of these objects are bound to yield much more immediate benefits than studying the early d... |
10 January 2013
11:41 GMT |
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The debate over whether Mars harbored life at some point or, indeed, whether it may be harboring life right now, is still going. Hopefully, Curiosity will be successful in its goal and will provide valuable and conclusive data, one way or another.
Still, no matter how barren the planet is right now, scientists agree... |
3 January 2013
11:36 GMT |
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As far as our planet is concerned, December 12, 2012, or 12/12/12, is a day just like any other day. It only holds a special meaning to us humans since we have a habit of seeing patterns and meaning even where there is none, it's how our brain works. So, our planet got its picture taken on the auspicious 12/12... |
13 December 2012
05:22 GMT |
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A research led by Conel Alexander and Jianhua Wang from the Carnegie Institution for Science shows that the building blocks composing Mars have a structure comparable to that of Earth.
It appears the two planets' forming was similar, although their following development differed, Mars Daily reports.
According ... |
20 November 2012
09:09 GMT |
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You can wave goodbye to asteroid 2007 PA8 as it's the last time you'll be seeing it for a while. Well, you won't be seeing it at all actually, first of all, because it's not coming close to Earth for another 200 years and second, because you couldn't actually see it now.
Even though it came ... |
6 November 2012
06:21 GMT |
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The Moon is so familiar to us that it doesn't really register as an extraterrestrial object. Yet, despite its familiarity and despite the fact that it's the only place outside of Earth that we've set foot on, the Moon can still seem and be quite mysterious.
One thing you may have noticed or even wond... |
26 October 2012
18:41 GMT |
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The Moon should be the body we know the most about, it's the closest after all. And we do know a lot more about the Moon than many other objects in our Solar System. But the big question remains, how did it get there?
The recent popular hypothesis, of a giant impact resulting in the Earth as we know it and the... |
18 October 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Ideas about the Moon's origins have been around since the dawn of mankind. An increasingly popular one is that the Moon is the result of a collision between an early planet and a very young Earth which resulted in the Earth we know now and the Moon. It's the most spectacular hypothesis, compared to other s... |
17 October 2012
16:51 GMT |
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A comet whose discovery was announced on Monday, September 24, by Russian astronomers Vitali Nevski and Artyom Novichonok, may pass very close to Earth in late 2013. The object may even be visible to the naked eye in the daytime, albeit for only a brief period. The two astronomers named the space rock they discover... |
26 September 2012
06:01 GMT |
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Corrosively acidic rivers such as the Spanish Rio Tinto, salt pans such as those in Tunisia and Bolivia, and the cold harshness of Antarctica are all locations analogous to what future space exploration missions could be faced with on other planets. Studying them could yield clues on alien life.
This is especially ... |
25 September 2012
10:28 GMT |
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During a meeting of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) held last month, experts in the field decided to attach a clear, constant value to an astronomical unit (AU), a measure of the distance between the Earth and the Sun.
Previously, the length of an AU was determined by a large number of ever-changing fact... |
25 September 2012
09:38 GMT |
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According to a paper presented at the 2012 European Planetary Science Congress today, September 25, there is a high probability (under certain scenarios and conditions) that the seeds of life were brought to Earth aboard meteorites, or other pieces of debris originating on other worlds.
Over the past few years, im... |
25 September 2012
04:23 GMT |
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Experts at NASA recently released a short video clip that details how Earth's magnetosphere sounds like. The audio file was compiled from data relayed back to Mission Control by the twin Radiation Belt Storm Probe (RBSP) spacecraft.
The Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFIS... |
21 September 2012
11:25 GMT |
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Officials at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, announce that the Juno spacecraft has recently completed its second course-correction maneuver. The probe is currently flying on its established path, heading for Jupiter.
The second Deep Space Maneuver (DSM-2) was carried out on Friday,... |
18 September 2012
03:33 GMT |
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The second full Moon of the month was captured on tape on Friday, August 31, by the third Meteosat Second Generation (MSG-3) satellite. The spacecraft was launched into Earth's orbit on July 5, and is currently undergoing testing and commissioning.
MSG-3 was able to capture this view of the blue Moon using its ... |
3 September 2012
09:07 GMT |
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Scientists operating Electro-L – the first next-generation meteorological satellite developed for the Russian Federal Space Agency (RosCosmos) by NPO Lavochkin – have just released a video clip made up of images from the spacecraft. The view of Earth's northern hemisphere is breathtaking.
The space... |
28 August 2012
09:02 GMT |
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If you've ever wondered why we don't travel through the core of the planet in order to get to the other side, the video above will provide you with an accurate answer. The clip described how gravitational forces would act on a body falling through the planet, and how that body would behave as a result.
Th... |
27 August 2012
04:05 GMT |
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The Sun produced a new, middle-class solar flare on Friday, August 17, experts at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), in Greenbelt, Maryland, announce. The event was cataloged as an M5.6-class flare.
Solar physicists say that C-class solar flares are the weakest the Sun can produce, whereas X-class events ... |
20 August 2012
04:58 GMT |
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Working together with experts at the US Geological Survey (USGS), software experts at Google created a new tool for observing the changing Earth, which enables users to view time-lapse videos of how certain areas of the world evolve over the years.
The online tool contains more than 13 years’ worth of satellite dat... |
1 August 2012
05:22 GMT |
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This seemingly complex NASA diagram illustrates the orbits of several important objects or classes of celestial bodies around the Sun. The star is obviously in the middle, in bright yellow. The three gray rings around it represent the orbits of Mercury, Venus and Mars.
Naturally, the bright green circle shows ... |
30 July 2012
11:02 GMT |
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Usually, when satellites are retired from active duty, not all components are damaged or at the end of their life spans. However, when critical systems go, so does the entire spacecraft. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has a plan to take advantage of the situation.
The organization plans to... |
27 July 2012
11:29 GMT |
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Officials at the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) are proud to announce the 40th anniversary of the Landsat satellite constellation, which is the basis of the longest Earth-observing space program ever conducted.
The first Landsat spacecraft was ... |
23 July 2012
10:09 GMT |
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A new Earth-monitoring instrument will be delivered to the International Space Station today, July 20, when the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launches its third H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-3). The device will enable astronauts to snap impressive photos of the surface of the planet.
Dubbed the Internation... |
20 July 2012
03:01 GMT |
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An extra-solar candidate around 67 percent the size of Earth was recently detected close to our own solar system. Researchers say that the discovery was only made possible through the use of the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope.
According to experts, the object is located around 33 light-years from Earth, which makes ... |
19 July 2012
03:26 GMT |
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According to a team of investigators, one of the reasons why our planet is suffering from a shortage of water is that Earth formed in a different area of the solar system than first thought, a region that was significantly drier than current planetary formation models hold.
Though one could easily point out that mo... |
18 July 2012
08:47 GMT |
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The new Platinum difficulty that developer BioWare is introducing to Mass Effect 3 in the upcoming Earth downloadable content is hard enough that only a limited number of the game designers have actually managed to beat it.
Mike Gamble, who is one of the producers working on the series, talked about Platinum during ... |
17 July 2012
03:06 GMT |
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Using funds from the American space agency and the US National Science Foundation (NSF), scientists at the University of Iowa were recently able to develop a new viewing technique for satellites, which enable the spacecraft to see through Earth's cloud cover.
Currently, spacecraft can only conduct measurements... |
12 July 2012
08:12 GMT |
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A space image enthusiast who goes by the Vimeo user name of Joan has recently uploaded a high-resolution, time-lapse video that was put together from a large number of images sent back to Earth from aboard the International Space Station. This is definitely worthy of your attention.
According to the author, the imag... |
9 July 2012
07:37 GMT |
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The High Rate Data (HRD) antenna aboard the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite has recently been turned on, and is now relaying significant amounts of meteorological data back to mission controllers on Earth.
Suomi NPP is a next-generation spacecraft built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Cor... |
7 July 2012
05:47 GMT |
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On July 5, representatives from the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) signed an agreement which formalized the institution's commitment to the International Charter “Space and Major Disasters.” The purpose of this charter is to monitor the planetary c... |
6 July 2012
11:30 GMT |
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At the end of this day, June 30, clocks will show something they rarely do, the hour 23:59:60. The extra second is inserted into our standard definition of time to account for the fact that the length of the solar day is increasing. This means that the Earth is beginning to take longer and longer to spin around its ... |
30 June 2012
05:42 GMT |
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There are currently in excess of 4,500 species of minerals on the planet, a significant increase from the 500 or so species that existed when Earth first formed. The origin of more than 67 percent of the new minerals has been traced back to biological activity, and now experts turn their attention to mercury. These ... |
27 June 2012
08:56 GMT |
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The asteroid 2012 LZ1, which gave Earth a close shave on June 14, is apparently much larger than astronomers calculated. Predictions for the flyby held that, were the object to hit, it would have caused only local damage. Now, experts say that the effects may have been significantly worse.
Since the object was disc... |
26 June 2012
03:56 GMT |
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Most chemicals heavier than hydrogen and helium, a group including iron and silicon, were until now believed to be absolutely necessary for the formation of planets. Scientists believe that new worlds could only develop around metal-rich stars. This was recently proven not to be the case.
This is especially true for... |
14 June 2012
03:31 GMT |
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Since conducting direct studies of Earth's mantle is impossible with existing technological means, scientists need to think of other ways of confirming their computer models of what is going on under the crust. An experiment developed for this purpose is currently on the orbital lab.
André Kuipers, a fl... |
12 June 2012
08:52 GMT |
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Recently, officials at the European Space Agency have announced that they will pull the plug on the Envisat mission. While the satellite's failure left them no choice, they are now in a very uncomfortable position in terms of capabilities, which requires them to begin launching the Sentinel satellite constellati... |
8 June 2012
11:18 GMT |
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International efforts to stop the global loss of biodiversity from most ecosystems have been slacking as of late, 17 respected ecologists argue in this week's issue of the journal Nature. They say that renewed commitment is needed to ensure that ecosystemic failure does not ensure. The warning comes 20 years a... |
7 June 2012
05:33 GMT |
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Astronomers say that a space rock that has only recently been discovered flew past Earth earlier today, May 29, at 0700 UTC (03:00 am EDT), without posing any kind of dangers to the planet. The small asteroid passed within 14,440 kilometers (8,950 miles) of the surface.
This is one of the ten closest asteroid approa... |
29 May 2012
09:31 GMT |
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In less than two weeks, Venus will transit the Sun for the last time in our lives. Literally. The planet moves in between Earth and the Sun twice every few years, but these periods are spaced more than a century apart. The next Venusian transit will occur in December 2117.
The upcoming transit will take place betwe... |
24 May 2012
10:36 GMT |
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Scientists from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) announce the creation of a new model describing geological strata. Their new approach to doing this is in stark contrast with previous explanations proposed by geologists.
For example, experts believed that each horizontal sl... |
23 May 2012
10:39 GMT |
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Investigators from the University of Maryland (UMD), in the United States, say that a new study they conducted provided new evidence that supports the Gaia hypothesis. This one proposes that the entire planet is a giant, living organism.
The team believes that it will soon be able to discover and analyze a large num... |
16 May 2012
05:09 GMT |
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The Field Museum in Chicago is now the owner of a small meteorite that is believed to be around 4.6 billion years old, which is at least 100 million years older than our planet. The rock may have been among the first objects to form in the solar system.
The 10-gram sample is taken from a larger meteorite, and was do... |
10 May 2012
05:02 GMT |
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A team of investigators that included Alan Boss from the Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS) Department of Terrestrial Magnetism has recently determined that hot-Jupiter-class extrasolar planets can prevent the formation of Earth-like worlds early on in their development.
Researchers figured out that the gas gia... |
8 May 2012
03:13 GMT |
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