Tag Archives: Earth

The most accurate 3-D map of our galaxy has come out by astronomers. The 3-D galaxy map was created using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia Space Probe, which has been scanning stars since 2013. The hope is that the map will shed new light on the work of …

Inside New York Times The essay published his funeral day on July 30, 2020. John Lewis of Congress wrote that his “last days and hours” in which he witnessed widespread protests over the assassination of George Floyd and saw a square in downtown DC filled with Black Lives Matter Plaza …

In Wummera, a dusty desert town in South Australia, scientists are getting ready. On December 6, 2020, after six years in space, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Haibusa 2 spacecraft will finally return to Earth. It carries with it a surprisingly rare, precious and hard-won cargo – the planet collects …

In Wummera, a dusty desert town in South Australia, scientists are getting ready. On December 6, 2020, after six years in space, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Haibusa 2 spacecraft will finally return to Earth. It carries with it a surprisingly rare, precious and hard-won cargo – the planet collects …

Scientists have identified an old part of the Pacific Ocean – the ancient remnants of the ocean floor long before that – that stretches hundreds of miles below China in the transition zone of the Earth’s crust. The rocky slab that was used to line the bottom of the Pacific …