Deep time is a headache. So many changes have happened in the cosmos, on our planet, and through evolution to create the world we know today. One of the most recent major changes, relatively speaking… [+14124 chars]
A grand celestial reunion is due in Earths skies throughout June. Sky-watchers will get a rare chance to see all the major planets in our solar system bunched togetherwith the moon joining the festiv… [+4287 chars]
ByUniversity of AmsterdamJune 16, 2022 University of Amsterdam physicists build an atom laser that can stay on forever. Credit: UvA These days, imagining our everyday life without lasers is difficu… [+7083 chars]
(Newser) With the polar bear species in a fight for survival because of disappearing Arctic sea ice, a new distinct group of Greenland bears seem to have stumbled on an icy oasis that might allow a … [+2540 chars]
The next time you look up at a bright full moon, think about this: No one knows, precisely, where the moon came from. We have no idea why the moon is here, science writer Rebecca Boyle says on Unex… [+9119 chars]
Welcome to the Shirk Report where you will find 20 funny images, 10 interesting articles and 5 entertaining videos from the last 7 days of sifting. Most images found on Reddit; articles from Digg, Ko… [+1324 chars]
The violent death throes of a nearby star so thoroughly disrupted its planetary system that the dead star left behindknown as a white dwarfis sucking in debris from both the system's inner and outer … [+5667 chars]
A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology believe that we can mitigate the worst of climate change with space bubbles. Theyve outlined a strategy in which a huge raft of bubb… [+3085 chars]
Powering Down The clock is ticking for Voyager space vehicles 1 and 2. Voyager 1 has gone farther since being launched in 1977, along with its twin, than any other manmade space vehicles in human hi… [+1264 chars]
Jupiter's innards are full of the remains of baby planets that the gas giant gobbled up as it expanded to become the behemoth we see today, scientists have found. The findings come from the first cle… [+7220 chars]
ByJennifer Chu, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyJune 16, 2022 MIT astronomers have discovered a new multiplanet system that lies just 10 parsecs, or about 33 light-years, from Earth, making it … [+8044 chars]
Welcome to the Shirk Report where you will find 20 funny images, 10 interesting articles and 5 entertaining videos from the last 7 days of sifting. Most images found on Reddit; articles from Digg, Ko… [+1324 chars]
