This video takes you on a journey through Jupiter’s atmosphere, revealing the planet’s immense storms, powerful cyclones, and breathtaking lightning strikes captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. It ...
Summer is officially over September 22, at 2:19 p.m. Time to hang up the surfboard, deflate the beach balls, stow the grill, ...
So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases ...
Because the Earth is doing the work of increasing the Moon's momentum, the Earth's rotation slows down in turn, as its ...
New research warns that if we don't hit an asteroid in exactly the right spot, it could end up on a collision course with ...
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The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, expects its spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid in July 2031. The ...
Due to the influence the Earth plays on the moon’s momentum, the Earth’s rotation slows down in response, as explained by DiKerby. However, given that this is such a minor change in distance annually, ...
The equinox marks the arrival of fall in the Northern Hemisphere on Sept. 22. Are you ready for fall? The official arrival of fall is the autumnal equinox, which occurs in the Northern Hemisphere on ...
Asteroid deflection could backfire if the impact shoves the rock into a cosmic keyhole, a hidden trapdoor in space.