New research highlights the similarities between current ice melt from Greenland and historical Heinrich Events, suggesting that while the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) faces risks from increased freshwater and global warming, it is robust enough to avoid complete collapse. The work provides crucial insights into past and potential future changes in ocean circulation,...
Someday, perhaps 30 years from now, companies will be grabbing asteroids and exploiting them for mineral extraction. Asteroids contain the same valuable minerals, from gold to platinum, from cobalt to indium, that...
The practical knowledge from NASA-funded discoveries and the inventions that enabled them fall under the rubric of “spinoffs.” Although the term fits nicely into the concept of the invention-discovery cycle, spinoff is...
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In mystery stories, the chief suspect almost always gets exonerated before the end of the book. Typically because a key piece of evidence turned out to be...
Satellites are more likely to be at risk from high-speed solar wind than a major geomagnetic storm according to a new UK-US study published this week in the Journal Space Weather.
Researchers investigating the space...
A Yale-led study discovers that planets in binary star systems, similar to “Star Wars'” Tatooine, are more likely to be climate-friendly due to their...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has narrowed down the competition for its next-generation anti-jamming communications satellites to aerospace giants Boeing and Northrop Grumman,...
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Filippo Galati in Sampieri, Sicily, Italy, shared this image. Filippo wrote: “On May 16, 2022, before the start...