According to a new study, the swirling solid ball at the center of Earth’s inner core appears to have recently paused and may even now be rotating in the opposite direction. A pair of Chinese scientists have been studying seismic … Read More
In the entire Universe, we know of only one planet capable of supporting life. That is the planet Earth. So, when we look for exoplanets that could support life, we look for a rocky exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star at … Read More
A few years ago, five Arizona friends planned to launch a GoPro camera and a phone into the upper atmosphere in a weather balloon to capture footage of space. College students Bryan Chan, Ved Chirayath, Ashish Goel, Paul Tarantino, and … Read More
We’ve seen Mother Nature find ways to surprise us thousands of times in the past. She never gets tired of doing it, and we don’t get tired of witnessing her wonders. And we can say, with confidence, that there’s nothing more satisfying than seeing photographs that capture the masterful … Read More
Moonbows, also known as lunar rainbows, are different from regular rainbows in that they are created by the shimmers of moon rays rather than the sun. A moonbow (alsoknown as a moon rainbow or lunar rainbow) is a rainbow created by … Read More
Most of us learned in school that the planets are in the following order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and (until 2006) Pluto. As a result, you could be forgiven for thinking that our closest planetary neighbor … Read More