Sir David Attenborough was 28-years-old when he convinced his boss on the BBC to let him travel the world and document his research. Since then he has been constantly on the road. For almost 70 years, Knight Britain and its team of filmmakers have traveled to some of the most …
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Jupiter. The largest planet in the solar system – twice as many as all the other planets combined. This vast universe is made up of the same cloud of dust and gas that has become our sun and the rest of the planets. But Jupiter was the first to be …
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We all know and love our moon. It has been a constant companion of the earth for billions of years, the mainstay of the sky. But he is not our only ally. Now and then, a few months or years before returning to space – a small object is temporarily …
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The Fall Equinox arrives this Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. ET (1:30 pm UTC). Although not the best time to balance eggs (that’s the story of older wives), the Northern Hemisphere has autumn, cold temperatures, and short days that make up about 90 percent of the Earth’s population. For the Southern …
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The world’s most advanced telescopes weren’t built for today’s temperatures, and they mess with our observations of the night sky. Three decades of value data – the home of the Paranal Observatory (the European Southern Observatory’s very large telescope (VLT)) in northern Chile – reveals many ways in which climate …
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