President Donald Trump will leave office next year having overseen robust growth in federal science spending over his 4 years in office, despite his administration’s repeated efforts to slash research budgets. Carlos Barria/Reuters By Science News StaffDec. 22, 2020 , 5:20 PM The massive $1.4 trillion spending bill that U.S. […]
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Saturn (above) and Jupiter (below) in the sky above a church in New York City. Gary Hershorn Photographers from around the world captured Jupiter and Saturn aligning almost perfectly in the night sky this week. Monday was the closest the two planets have appeared in 800 years — the last […]
An image made by the Hubble Space Telescope’s wide field camera on Jan. 7, 2020 shows a second, wavering dark spot, wider than the Atlantic Ocean, on the planet Neptune. (NASA, ESA, STScI, M.H. Wong, L.A. Sromovsky and P.M. Fry via The New York Times) Neptune boasts some of the […]
NEW YORK — The evening sky over the Northern Hemisphere treated stargazers to a once-in-a-lifetime illusion on Monday, as the solar system’s two biggest planets appeared to meet in a celestial alignment that astronomers call the “Great Conjunction.” The rare spectacle resulted from a near convergence of the orbits of […]
Neptune boasts some of the strangest weather in the solar system. The sun’s eighth planet holds the record for the fastest winds observed on any world, with speeds cutting through the atmosphere upward of 1,100 miles per hour, or 1.5 times the speed of sound. Scientists still don’t know exactly […]
Jupiter and Saturn have come closer than at any time in 400 years in the event dubbed the great conjunction, prompting people around the world to turn out and try for a glimpse. The orbital paths of the two huge planets ensure great conjunctions every 20 years, but many are […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The evening sky over the Northern Hemisphere treated stargazers to a once-in-a-lifetime illusion on Monday as the solar system’s two biggest planets appeared to meet in a celestial alignment that astronomers call the “Great Conjunction.” The rare spectacle resulted from a near convergence of the orbits […]
By Peter Szekely NEW YORK (Reuters) – The evening sky over the Northern Hemisphere treated stargazers to a once-in-a-lifetime illusion on Monday as the solar system’s two biggest planets appeared to meet in a celestial alignment that astronomers call the “Great Conjunction.” The rare spectacle resulted from a near convergence […]