Earth’s Magnetic Pole Has Officially Moved—Again
In mid-December of 2024, scientists officially updated the World Magnetic Model (WMM), which helps keep track of our planet’s ...
Meet NISAR: The Satellite That Will Watch Every Inch of Our Changing Planet
NISAR, an upcoming Earth satellite mission by NASA and ISRO, promises to revolutionize how we monitor Earth's surface. Using ...
ESA’s Gaia Spacecraft Wraps Up Revolutionary Milky Way Mapping Mission
ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
Hubble Discovers “Blue Lurker” Spinning So Fast, It’s Breaking Astronomers’ Models
A Triple Star System Yields an Unusual Surviving Star Unlike our Sun, which exists alone, at least half of the stars in our ...
Scientists Just Solved the Mystery Behind This Strange Celestial Object
An extremely slow pulsar has made scientists “slow down” their assumptions about other pulsars. The pace could be caused by a ...
Past their sell-by date: the science of calendars past and present
Teymour Taj celebrates the beginning of 2025 by exploring the weird and wonderful history of calendars As 2025 rolled in, ...
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Saturn’s Rings Are Disappearing—But They’ll Be Back
Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...
Astronomers discover the windiest planet in the universe
The extreme supersonic winds of WASP-127b are more than 60 times faster than the fastest winds ever observed on Earth ...
A Colorado pastor thought he could make flat-Earthers see the light in Antarctica. It didn’t work.
That will solve this once and for all,” Will Duffy said. “We need to go to Antarctica. I need to take a flat-Earther or two ...
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NASA Warns Massive China Dam Has Power to Change the Earth's Rotation
Science: NASA scientists have warned that China's Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric power station, has the potential to slightly alter Earth's rotation. The massive dam, which spans ...
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NASA warns: China’s Three Gorges Dam could slow Earth’s rotation by 0.06 seconds; here’s how
Three Gorges Dam affects Earth’s rotation: Implications and perspective ... the physical properties of Earth once seemed like a science fiction story involving human beings.