New research has found that the expansion of continents 56 million years ago likely caused one of the most extreme periods of global warming in Earth’s history. During this time, the planet experienced a temperature increase of 5-8 °C (9-14 °F), culminating in the Paleocene-Eocene Temperature Maximum (PETM), which lasted about 170,000 years. It caused …
New research has found that the expansion of continents 56 million years ago likely caused one of the most extreme periods of global warming in Earth’s history. During this time, the planet experienced a temperature increase of 5-8 °C (9-14 °F), culminating in the Paleocene-Eocene Temperature Maximum (PETM), which lasted about 170,000 years. It caused …
Planetary scientists have created a new, detailed map of the asteroid Psyche, providing a tantalizing preview of the target for a NASA mission set to launch later this year. NASA agency self mission, named after its destination, aims to discover whether the 140-mile-wide (225 kilometer) metal-rich asteroid is the exposed core of a protoplanet, scientists …
The second part of the Florida launch tower for SpaceX’s super heavy rocket and Starship was hoisted above the first part of the tower Thursday at the Kennedy Space Center, continuing with the construction of the structure more than 400 feet tall. SpaceX moved the second part of the metallic tower — the same as …
