Edward J. Pearce

Artist's impression of the early solar system. Credit: Tobias Stierli / Flaeck / PlanetSThe Chaotic Early Stages of the Solar SystemAn international team of researchers led by ETH Zurich and the National Research Center PlanetS has…

P waves and s waves form a group called body waves, which cut through the rock. The fastest are p-waves (primary or compression waves), which compress rocks as they pass through them. The movement of these waves is akin to someone at the…

A new study has found that "super-planets" outside our solar system that are rich in hydrogen or helium may be more habitable than our own. Researchers say rocky exoplanets with hydrogen and helium-dominated atmospheres have surfaces hot…

The James Webb Space Telescope focuses on the bright star in the center for alignment assessment. This image of the star called 2MASS J17554042+6551277 uses a red filter to optimize visual contrast. Photo: NASA/STScI Check out the James…

One of the most amazing things in astronomy is the way it acts as a time travel machine. For example, sometimes we see things so far away that it takes light billions of years to reach us, so we see that object as it…

Our solar system is a magical place, much like the rest of the ever-expanding universe. Although we may not know much about the deepest regions of space and the secrets that lurk in the darker cosmos, we do know for sure that the universe…

Against a currenta science fiction novel about an environmental engineer Laura J. Mixon, explores life aboard asteroid 25 Phocaea. The book takes a more realistic approach to space adventure, eschewing familiar tropes such as FTL…

Astronomers sifted through data acquired by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and zeroed in on a star called G238-44. SEE THE GALLERY - 2 IMAGES A team of astronomers looked at data from Hubble, along with other observations from various NASA…

Calling Jupiter "huge" is not really relevant. At the equivalent of 318 Earths, the planet is gargantuan - and it feasts on other planets.Yes, it's true. The King of the Planets has won his throne, but don't mess with the frenzied beast…

Vibrant Planet will use the funding to expand into new markets in the United States, Europe and beyond, unlocking the full benefits of forest restoration Vibrant Planet, the creator of the Forest Restoration!-->…

Most observers would agree that, of all galaxies, barred spirals are the best targets for amateur telescopes. That said, it's a shame that the best example of a barred spiral - NGC 1365 - languishes in the nearly invisible constellation of…

On Saturday June 18, the fire subsided enough that Michelle Edwards, associate director of KPNO, and Joe Davis, security manager, accessed the property and found that the telescopes and domes were still standing. Unfortunately, some of the…

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A description of his Marginalian work: www.themarginalian.org/… "In October 1883, a National Capital newspaper reported under the headline "Current Gossip" that "an Iowa woman spent seven years embroidering the solar system on a…

Comet 323P/SOHO was discovered in 1999, and has an orbit of fire and ice: In its deeply elliptical 4-year orbit around the Sun, it exits almost to the orbit of Jupiter, but then falls back just a hair more than 5 million…

The five bright planets fan out in order of their distance from the Sun across the sky from dawn until early July. One of the prettiest mornings to see them will be June 24, when a striking crescent moon joins…

Do you really know our solar system?Hematite spheres (or "Martian blueberries") as imaged by the Mars Exploration Rover. These are almost certainly evidence of past liquid water on Mars, and possibly past life. NASA scientists need to be…

For Neeraj Ladia, "astronomy" or staring into space has been the biggest mystery for humans. “You are amazed to see the movements in the sky, fantasizing about the magical shimmering existence. Astro watching led me to a different…

Dust collection Each star grows on its own schedule. The protostar stage is like the unstable adolescence of a star. When its accretion disk stabilizes and matter stops falling into the core, it becomes a main-sequence star. There may…

Artist's concept of Mars. Image: Westend61 via Getty ImagesABSTRACT breaks down mind-blowing scientific research, future technologies, new discoveries and major breakthroughs.Scientists have discovered a new history of Mars, written in the…

MIT astronomers have discovered a new multiplanetary system located 10 parsecs, or about 33 light years, from Earth, making it one of the closest known multiplanetary systems to our system. The star at the system's core likely hosts at…

The next time you look at a bright full moon, think about this: no one knows exactly where the moon came from. "We have no idea why the moon is here," science writer Rebecca Boyle said on Inexplicable - Vox's podcast that explores big…

An unusual blue-tinted asteroid likely got its signature color from intense sunlight, new research finds, solving a decades-old mystery.The blue color of the asteroid Phaeton has puzzled scientists since the space rock was discovered in…

Parliament Arts Organization King Street Jam The Parliament Arts Organization will host the King Street Jam, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday, in the Royal Square area of ​​York city centre. Nationally acclaimed musicians will play…

A new study indicates that 44% of Earth's land surface needs conservation attention to stop the rampant destruction of the natural world.This figure is significantly higher than the target currently under discussion as part of the…

BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency has released a wealth of data on nearly 2 billion stars in the Milky Way, collected by its Gaia mission in a bid to create the most accurate and comprehensive map of our galaxy.Astronomers hope to use…

(Photo by jody amiet / AFP)Everyone is excited about satellites, but what kind of satellite really matters to them? Can a satellite network improve use cases around the world?Satellites have been around for over half a century…

A fifth of an ounce of dark spots brought to Earth from an asteroid by a Japanese spacecraft are among the most pristine bits of a baby solar system ever studied, scientists said Thursday. This fact should help planetary…

A team led by astronomers from UC Berkeley has for the first time discovered what they believe to be a floating black hole located between 2,280 and 6,260 light-years from Earth.This is an incredibly rare discovery, since black holes are…

In April I wrote that you could observe four planets online. Well,…

A fifth of an ounce of dark spots brought to Earth from an asteroid by a Japanese spacecraft are among the most pristine bits of a baby solar system ever studied, scientists said Thursday.This fact should help planetary scientists refine…

Sunday June 12The Moon occults or passes in front of Dschubba of 2nd magnitude (Delta Scorpii) tonight, visible to observers in eastern Canada and the northeastern United States. Our satellite rises before sunset; as the sky darkens,…

Okavango Delta A new tool from Google Earth Engine and the nonprofit World Resources Institute extracts satellite data to create detailed maps in near real time. Called Dynamic World, it zooms in on the planet in 10 by…

Senior Public Education Officer at the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), Ava Tomlinson (third from right), hosts a birding session with teachers from 20!-->…

ITV Studios buys British natural history producer Plimsoll Productions, Variety can reveal. Although the acquisition is not yet closed, sources indicate that it should be finalized within the next two days. The deal, which sees ITV…

Artist's impression of the extrasolar object, which passed close to the Sun in 2017 (ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. Kornme)The European Space Agency approved the construction of Comet Mission Interceptor, a small spacecraft designed to fly close…

This month, early risers in Canada might see five planets lined up in the eastern sky: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. "You will see several bright objects in a row if you look east before sunrise," astrophysicist…

NASA will launch a mission that will both pass Venus and descend through its hostile atmosphere in 2029.…

There is no doubt that young solar systems are chaotic places. Cascading collisions defined our young solar system when rocks, boulders, and planetesimals repeatedly collided.A new study based on pieces of asteroids that crashed into…

Nine students from Maui participated in the University of Hawaii's HI STAR program to nurture interest in what exists in the universe and encourage careers in STEM. Photo Courtesy: UH Maui College King Kekaulike High School student…

Meet Ross 508b: Scientists discover a 'SUPER EARTH' exoplanet four times larger than our own planet orbiting a star 36.5 light years awayA new "super Earth" four times larger than our own planet has been spottedThe exoplanet,…

Sunday June 5Saturn stands still against a backdrop of Capricorn stars at 10:00 a.m. EDT. The ringed planet is currently prominent in the pre-dawn sky, shining at magnitude 0.6 in the upper left (northeast) corner of Deneb Algedi. But…

There is no doubt that young solar systems are chaotic places. Cascading collisions defined our young solar system when rocks, boulders, and planetesimals repeatedly collided. A new study based on pieces of asteroids that crashed into…

"Where are all the Trojans" is a valid question in both the study of ancient history and the study of exoplanets. Trojan bodies, which share orbital paths with other larger planets, are widespread in our solar system - most obviously in…

M87 is another elliptical Messier galaxy in the Virgo cluster, 55 million light-years distant and some 120,000 light-years wide. It lies about 3½° northwest of Rho Virginis. But M87 surpasses M84 and M86 in terms of mass: it has at least…

A proposed Chinese mission would search for potentially habitable alien worlds nearby by launching a spacecraft to take ultra-precise measurements of how orbiting planets wobble a star.For this mission, called the Closeby Habitable…

If the solar system is only 4.6 billion years old but the universe has been around for 13.8 billion years, isn't it likely that other forms of life existed long before us in the universe? Bob Spangler Fruita, Colorado With…

When is a bee a fish? California Court of Appeals Finds Invertebrates May Be Protected Under California Endangered Species Act Bees are fish! And…

A very strange meteorite discovered in western Egypt in 1996 may contain tiny bits of debris from a supernova, and not just any supernova, but a supernova created by the explosion of a white dwarf, the remnant core of a…

They are trapped.Two swarms of curious and diverse space rocks – called Trojan asteroids – are constantly traveling around the sun, one in front of the gas giant Jupiter and the other behind. Jupiter and the Sun's gravity have combined to…

Although Pluto lost its "Planet Nine" status when it was downgraded to a dwarf planet, there is ample evidence that our solar system had or currently has a major planet far beyond Pluto that may one day claim dominance.…

OWhen I had the idea to write my first book, Zero altitudee – and tempt, as The Independentfrom the travel editor, not to fly for a year - the world was on a stubborn path from which there was seemingly no turning back: growth. Growth,…

This ground image of Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) was taken on July 16, 2020 from the Northern Hemisphere. The inset image, taken on August 8, 2020, by the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals a close-up of the comet after passing through the Sun.…

Though rather small, Saturn's 310-mile-wide (500 km) moon Enceladus also got the star treatment in this latest 10-year report. That's partly because the Cassini mission saw plumes of liquid erupting from Enceladus in 2005. And where…

Photo taken on Nov. 17, 2021 shows the landscape of a terrestrial forest in Yuanmou County, southwest China's Yunnan Province. Humanity has only one home: Earth. But it is not ours…

3D rendering of a spacecraft approaching Jupiter Getty As many as nine robotic missions have visited the Jovian system - home to the solar system's largest planet, Jupiter - and in less than 80 years humans could…

The more I learn about the LA Rams' inside linebacker combination of veteran Bobby Wagner and sophomore linebacker Ernest Jones, the more I like it. Historically, the LA Rams had continued to devote their resources to other positions on…

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Natural resources in space worth billions, if not trillions of dollars, are on the verge of contention between the United States and China. The two superpowers are aggressively vying for dominance in space and at the center of this rivalry…

The third episode of prehistoric planet takes viewers away from the hot sands and into freshwater environments.The opening scene of "Freshwater" focuses on a trio of Velociraptor as they ambush a pterosaur, which may be a tribute to…

Neptune is the farthest planet from the sun and one of the two "ice giants" of our solar system. The cold, blue planet is about 30 times farther from the sun than Earth and takes about 165 Earth years to complete a single orbit around our…

The vast majority of us could only aspire, before "Lunar Reverieto get into the spirit of david bowie — the character, the artist, the terrestrial entity not yet confirmed. Eclectic, shamelessly maximalist and variously philosophical:…

A new computer simulation suggests that the dwarf planet Ceres may have been thrown by the gravity of gas giant Jupiter toward the sun during the volatile era of planet formation 4.5 billion years ago. There's always been something out of…

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On a series On 70-year-old photographic plates containing images of the night sky, a few astronomers say they found something odd: flashes of light that appear and then disappear, like ghosts.“We found an image where nine stars were there,…

In addition to observing distant stars, galaxies and exoplanets, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope will study our solar system. 1 creditthehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMIlMIr5nhEThe James Webb Space Telescope will be the next…

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is NASA's next major observatory; in line with the Hubble Space Telescope, the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Spitzer Space Telescope. JWST combines the qualities…

At dawn on Sunday, May 29, Jupiter and Mars are only 0.6 degrees (36 arc minutes) apart on the east-southeast horizon. On a flat horizon, bright Venus can be seen more than 25 degrees east of Jupiter and Mars. This is the view of London…

The exploration of habitable planets outside the solar system is one of the main frontiers of fundamental research in astronomy. The exploration of habitable planets outside the solar system is one of the main frontiers of…

NASA has requested $24 billion in funding from the US government for fiscal year 2022.  This month, legislators are discussing the request. According to The Register, the expensive budget is still over $760.2 million, a bit less than!-->!-->!-->…

An artistic illustration of exoplanets. /APC An artistic illustration of exoplanets. /APC Chinese scientists have proposed a space project to survey the…

When you notice that faint glow of reflected sunlight in the dark sky just before dawn and after dusk, you are actually looking at the zodiacal dust cloud. Dust shrouds our inner solar system, and up to 30,000 tons of its particles drift…

A North County High School student skyrockets at the top of a national solar system research competition with a out of this world project. Dominic Alfinito won the Exploration of the Moon and Asteroids by…

When you notice that faint glow of reflected sunlight in the dark sky just before dawn and after dusk, you are actually looking at the zodiacal dust cloud. Dust shrouds our inner solar system, and up to 30,000 tons of its particles drift…

Dust is a common component of spiral galaxies. Astronomers believe this dust is carbon- or silicate-rich and no more than 0.25 microns wide. This does not greatly affect the brightness of galaxies, except in cases where they appear almost…

Keiki and other community members visit one of the booths provided by a participating organization on Saturday, May 14 during AstroDay at Prince Kūhiō Plaza in Hilo. (Photos by Nathan Christopher) At least one future astronaut, one…

Black holes are, by definition, places where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape. So they are black - dark - and impossible to imagine. To the right? As evidenced by the success of the Event Horizon telescope, we can…

The best-known asteroid to collide with Earth is the Chicxulub crater, which struck the Yucatán Peninsula 65 million years ago. It is known for having wiped out the dinosaurs, as well as three quarters of life on the planet. Other huge…

Our climate is warming rapidly and rising temperatures are impacting the physical environments that support entire ecosystems. Humans and animal species are facing daunting challenges to their survival due to climate…

First visitors Humans have seen rocks falling from the sky for thousands of years. One of the earliest potential recorded accounts dates back to 1478 BC. AD, when, according to the Chronicle of Parian, a "lightning stone" fell on the…