After taking a multitude of hits from micrometeoroids in deep space, NASA will implement a new strategy to minimize future damage to the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope is the most powerful ever launched into space, but its sensitive mirrors have proven vulnerable to damage from micrometeoroids as they fly past. “To ensure all […]
According to AccuWeather meteorologists, a quick-hitting storm hitting the Pacific Northwest will dish out disruptive rain and snow for Thanksgiving holiday travelers, but will have the side benefit of sweeping away the stagnant air pollution that has persisted for days. The storm is poised to end a record-breaking dry streak in Seattle during a month that is historically […]
The Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology has reported that they’ve just endured the wettest October on record since records began in 1900, as nearly double the average rainfall for the month occurred, leading to moderate to major flooding in the region during the month. The previous month of heavy rainfall, fueled by La Niña-related events in September, set […]
NASA launched its massive Artemis I moon rocket early Wednesday, bringing the United States a step closer to landing on the lunar surface for the first time in 50 years since the end of the Apollo program. According Florida Today, NASA teams fueled the 322-foot Space Launch System rocket with liquid hydrogen and oxygen at 3:50 p.m. […]
As UPI reports, new research published in the Journal Nature shows extensive thinning of Greenland’s ice sheet and a speedup of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream that drains glacier ice into the sea. The ice stream deterioration could raise sea levels by as much as 15.5mm (0.6 inch) – more than six times what scientists […]
As the end of the calendar year gets closer, there are more meteor showers to enjoy! Why? That’s just how our orbit works, as we cross the debris paths of comets and asteroids during our celestial dance. The Leonids Meteor Shower occurs in the November night sky for most of the month, but the night […]
As CBS News reports, NASA managers have cleared the agency’s leak-bedeviled Artemis moon rocket for the start of another countdown early Monday, but engineers must resolve questions about hurricane-damaged insulation before the huge booster can be cleared for blastoff on an unpiloted moonshot. After multiple delays due to hydrogen fuel leaks and other glitches, along […]
After dumping feet of snow across the highest elevations of California, a strengthening storm will unleash an early dose of winter weather across the central U.S, with blizzard conditions forecast in some areas of the northern Plains, according to AccuWeather meteorologists. Periods of snow persisted on Wednesday morning across portions of Utah, Idaho and up to Montana. The storm will emerge in […]
NASA’s highly-anticipated return to the moon might be delayed once again, not due to technical issues, but due to tumultuous tropical weather. Tropical Storm Nicole developed over the weekend, and AccuWeather forecasters are warning that it could strengthen into a Category 1 hurricane before making landfall along Florida’s Atlantic coast. Artemis I, the first of NASA’s program to return […]
AccuWeather reports that a new hurricane watch was issued along the eastern coast of Florida on Monday as Subtropical Storm Nicole churned across the Atlantic and showed signs of further strengthening as it tracked toward the storm-weary state. AccuWeather meteorologists expect this sprawling storm to take a turn and hit Florida’s east coast — as a hurricane — later […]