Beginning on Wednesday, five asteroids will pass close to Earth, but NASA doesn’t anticipate any danger to the planet. According to NASA’s Asteroid Watch dashboard, four asteroids the size of a plane, three the size of a house, and one the size of a bus will approach Earth between September 6 and September 12. On…
According to new research, Mississippi mud cores provide long-hidden hints regarding the development of the massive Antarctic ice sheets 34 million years ago. At the period, Earth was undergoing a significant transition from the warm Eocene Epoch to the cooler Oligocene. Throughout the Eocene, the earth had any permanent ice, but by the early Oligocene,…
The furthest regions of the Solar System are a gloomy and mysterious place with details that escape us. Even a moderately massive planet may easily miss our attention while we are so far from the Sun’s brightness. The trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) that we have discovered outside of Neptune’s orbit have certain odd clustering characteristics that…
Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo was appointed by the National Institutes of Health on Wednesday to serve as the new director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. According to the NIH, Marrazzo is scheduled to start her new job in the fall. She takes over from Dr. Hugh Auchincloss Jr., who has held the…
