2017. An Overview

40 Years in Space:
Voyager 1

Launched on September 5, 1977. Part of the Voyager program.

3122 Florence

An asteroid of 2.7 miles (4.4 kilometers) wide will come within around 4.4 million miles (7 million kilometers) of Earth on
September 1, 2017

its closest encounter since 1890.

September 2017

June 2017

May 2017


NEWSFLASH

FOSSIL ‘WINGED SERPENT’ IS A NEW SPECIES OF ANCIENT SNAKE

By: scienceblog.com | 05 - 13 - 2017

An ancient sink hole in eastern Tennessee holds the clues to an important transitional time in the evolutionary history of snakes.

April 2017


NewsFlash

Power Outages Coincide in LA, New York, and San Francisco

By: Cory Scarola | Inverse.com | 04 - 21 - 2017

Although the outages occurred around the same time, there is as of yet no evidence that they were connected by anything more than coincidence. Read more...