In the 8 a.m. update , the National Hurricane Center upgraded the system's chances of strengthening into a cyclone in the next two days to 80 percent, a jump from Friday's prediction of 40 percent. Fishing, shipping and oilfield interests in the Gulf, as well as coastal areas, should monitor the storm's progress, Kottlowski said. At this time, tropical development or not, this is not an immed... [Full Article...]
This exomoon orbits the giant exoplanet Kepler-1625b and is a blue, large Neptune-sized moon . "It's big and weird by solar system standards", Columbia University astronomy professor David Kipping said of the moon , known as an exomoon because it is outside our solar system. [Full Article...]
Trudeau, however, insisted Wednesday that the clause should be reserved for "exceptional circumstances" and only deployed after lots of deep reflection about its broader ramifications. Enforcement, however, for such expulsions would fall to Ottawa. She tweeted Tuesday that Quebecers voted for less immigration. "Quebecers are welcome and generous". [Full Article...]
It's been detected in Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties, where certain beaches have closed. While the other tests came back in the very low to low range, the waters near Haulover Beach tested in the medium concentration range for the algae associated with red tide , officials said. [Full Article...]
The farm's previous owner told him it was a meteorite that he and his father saw come down on their property in the 1930s. "I walked in there and there's this rock and i said you got everything all cleaned up but what's this? and he said oh that's a meteorite ", says David, who owns the meteorite. [Full Article...]
Kepler is best equipped to find planets that orbit close to their stars, and analyses of orbital dynamics - not to mention the evidence in our own solar system - suggest that moons will be more common farther out. Teachey said that it's likely this possible exomoon is "in some ways the lowest hanging fruit". He added: "We're not cracking open Champagne bottles just yet on this one". [Full Article...]
Although many people had asked her to examine rocks in the past, this time was different. He says the meteorite came with the barn he bought in Edmore back in 1988. "I walked in there and there's this rock and i said you got everything all cleaned up but what's this? and he said oh that's a meteorite", says David, who owns the meteorite. [Full Article...]
The landing came with Russian and USA officials investigating the appearance of a mysterious hole in a Russian space craft docked at the orbiting station . The crew completed hundreds of experiments during its 197-day expedition in space, including an investigation to study ultra-cold quantum gases using the first commercial European facility for microgravity research, and a system that uses su... [Full Article...]