Tag: planet
Earth’s Inner Core Seems to Be Slowing Its Spin
Reading Time: < 1 minute It used to be that the inner core of Earth was spinning faster than the rest of the planet. Now it seems that the solid iron core in the middle […]
New Astronomical Discovery Challenges Generations of Scientific Conventional Wisdom
Reading Time: 2 minutes Its size and surface gravity are much larger than Earth’s, and its radiation environment may be hostile, but a distant planet called K2-18b has captured the interest of scientists all […]
NASA Retires Kepler Space
Reading Time: 4 minutes After nine years in deep space collecting data that indicate our sky to be filled with billions of hidden planets – more planets even than stars – NASA’s Kepler space […]