Seismic waves from earthquakes reveal changes in the Earth's outer core
Phys.org· 6 days agoIn May 1997, a large earthquake shook the Kermadec Islands region in the South Pacific Ocean. A little over 20 years later, in September 2018, a second big earthquake hit the same location, its waves of seismic energy emanating from the same region.
Water Worlds Could Have Plumes of Nutrients Carried up From Down Below
Universe Today· 2 days agoEarth’s oceans are one huge, uniform electrolyte solution. On Earth, electrolytes are released into...
This is How You Get Multiple Star Systems
Universe Today· 2 hours agoStars form inside massive clouds of gas and dust called molecular clouds. The Nebular Hypothesis explains how that happens. The Nebular Hypothesis is...
NASA delays Psyche asteroid mission
CBS News via Yahoo News· 6 days agoNASA says the Psyche mission offers a valuable opportunity to study one of the building blocks of the...NASA originally planned to launch the Psyche...
Council Post: Engineering The Carbon Neutral Future
Forbes· 17 hours agoIn May this year, the U.K. Met Office researchers revealed that there is a near fifty-fifty chance that Earth’s temperatures will go 1.5 Celsius above...
On Neptune and Uranus, Diamonds Rain Down from the Sky
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo Finance· 7 days agoScientists have finally discovered how sheets of diamond rain form on the ice giants, Neptune and...
Overview | Psyche Mission – NASA Solar System Exploration
NASA· 14 hours agoThe Psyche spacecraft will orbit a unique metal-rich asteroid by the same name – mapping it and studying its properties.
What can earthquakes and marsquakes teach us about planets?
Astronomy Magazine· 2 days agoP-waves and s-waves make up a group called body waves, which travel through rock. The fastest are p-waves (primary, or compression waves), which squeeze rocks as they race through them. As p-waves ...
Dawn Wright Set To Be First African American To Visit Earth’s Deepest Point
Forbes· 17 hours agoDawn Wright, chief scientist at Esri, has wanted to visit the deepest point on Earth since she was a...
Software Glitch Pushes Back NASA’s Psyche Mission Launch by at Least a Year
Gizmodo· 2 days agoThe next possible launch windows for the spacecraft are in 2023 and 2024, meaning that NASA won’t...