CASSINI’S FINAL PLUNGE!

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will make its mission-ending dive into the atmosphere of Saturn in 9 days. It will bravely make it’s plunge on September 15th.

Alien Seekers Report Repeated Radio Bursts

Breakthrough Listen – a global astronomical initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the universe, launched in 2015 by Internet investor Yuri Milner and cosmologist Stephen Hawking used the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia to observe the bursts from the mysterious distant object known as FRB 121102.

Water on TRAPPIST 1 Planets?

Planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system An international team of astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to estimate whether there might be water on the seven earth-sized planets orbiting the nearby dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. The results suggest that the outer planets of the system might still harbor substantial amounts of water. This includes the three planets […]

Eclipse and Florence Flies By

The much anticipated spectacular Total Eclipse of 2017 occurred on August 21. As millions of people across the United States experienced a total eclipse as the moon’s shadow passed over them, six astronauts on the International Space Station witnessed the the eclipse from orbit.

THE LARGEST DEAD ZONE

Did you know that there are oxygen depleted waters in the Gulf of Mexico? Scientist have tracked this dead zone for 32 years. The one that’s occurring this year is the biggest yet.

ELECTRIC BUSES COMING TO LA!

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) has goals of an emission free fleet by 2030, making plans to spend $138 million on electric buses.

Solar Eclipse of August 21, 2017

On August 21, 2017 a total eclipse of the sun will be visible from within a narrow corridor that traverses the United States. The path of the moon’s umbral shadow begins in the northern Pacific and crosses the U.S.