The ultra-powerful James Webb Space Telescope will launch soon. Once it's deployed and in position at the Earth-Sun Lagrange Point 2, it'll begin work. One of its jobs is to examine the atmospheres of exoplanets and look ...
Astronomy
Dec 24, 2020
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Persistent cold temperatures and strong circumpolar winds supported the formation of a large and deep Antarctic ozone hole that will persist into November, NOAA and NASA scientists reported today.
Environment
Nov 2, 2020
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A small but evolving dent in Earth's magnetic field can cause big headaches for satellites.
Space Exploration
Aug 17, 2020
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Around 128,000 years ago, the temperatures in the Bahamas were one to two degrees higher than they are today. A group of geologists and geodynamicists from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory visited the ...
Environment
Apr 2, 2020
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Australian scientists are developing the country's first satellite designed to predict where bushfires are likely to start, following months of devastating fires.
Environment
Mar 4, 2020
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A new study suggests global warming effect is underestimated, but climate scientists say more research is needed.
Earth Sciences
Jan 14, 2020
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NASA scientists using data from its NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite, has traced the movement of the smoke coming off the Australian fires across the globe showing that it has circumnavigated the Earth. In an image created from ...
Environment
Jan 14, 2020
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Astronomers now have a new pair of eyes to detect meteors over Hawaiʻi using a state-of-the-art monitoring system installed on the rooftops of existing buildings on Maunakea and Haleakalā. The high-speed video devices are ...
Space Exploration
Dec 17, 2019
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Two forms of magnesium material that were processed into tubing using a novel manufacturing technology called Shear Assisted Process and Extrusion—or ShAPE—were found to have quite similar and improved microstructures, ...
Materials Science
Nov 6, 2019
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Abnormally warm temperatures in the stratosphere over Antarctica dramatically limited ozone loss in September and October, resulting in the smallest ozone hole observed since 1982, NOAA and NASA scientists reported today.
Environment
Oct 22, 2019
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