Jesse Rogerson, a researcher at Toronto’s York University, says studying Pluto’s temperature and terrain will help scientists understand the evolution of various solar systems.
The rule is in response to protests and non-stop gatherings at the summit of Mauna Kea by people attempting to halt construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope. There also were reports of children running across the road, feces found smeared on bathroom walls, and protesters...
Another €8 million will be given to all countries affected by Ebola for multi-country projects. Many major economic sectors have been affected: agriculture, mining, trade, tourism, transport, fisheries and livestock. The functioning of schools, hospitals and other public...
An image captured by the New Horizons spacecraft and rolled out by NASA on Saturday, displays Pluto’s mystifying dark spots, which are regularly spaced apart and around 300 miles across each. The curtain hasn’t been pulled back like this since NASA’s Voyager 2...
Bolden’s spacex-crs-7″ target=”_blank”>statement tells, “We are dissatisfied in the beating of the latest SpaceX cargo resupply mission to the worldwide Space Station”. Musk says that engineers use now a hex editor parsing the data to...
In this Wednesday, July 8, 2015 photo, Bolivian President Evo Morales presents Pope Francis with a crucifix carved into a wooden hammer and sickle, in La Paz, Bolivia. He also made numerous historical pronouncements and railed against ideologies.
Maybe New Horizons will find something so interesting that the powers that be will decide to redefine what makes a “planet” yet again. Just because Pluto is bigger than any other known object in the Kuiper Belt does not mean that it’s the most massive or...
“The over-arching safety issue for us right now is that at any given time protesters can block the road dropping people above including observatory staff and create a medical emergency that way”, said Doug Simon, an astronomer.