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Deadline for the removal of ice fishing shanties has been issued by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The Agency has asked anglers to move remaining shanties on Lake St. Clair as mandatory ice shanty removal dates are approaching.

As per an announcement by the DNR, the temperature is increasing and it is becoming very difficult for the ice to hold shanties, so anglers are requested to remove shanties as soon as possible. The deadline by the agency shows that people have about 24 days to remove ice shanties from the Michigan-Wisconsin boundary waters. The Upper Peninsula counties will have extra half month to remove shanties. All counties in the area must remove shanties by March 31, the DNR announced.

Climate change is going to affect almost every region on our planet and urgent steps are required to deal with it. Over time, some of the places will get hotter, some cloudier, some drier and some wetter. A new map has been developed by using 14 years of data that shows which areas of the earth are going to affect the most due to climate change.

The map featured in the journal Nature has been developed using new system that analyzes satellite data. It represents what researchers call a vegetation sensitivity index (VSI), a method that combines many data sources. The first set of data used for the new map was taken from the enhanced vegetation index.

Now that the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) has detected gravitational waves as per Einstein’s theory, that are ripples in the curvature of space-time which propagate as waves, scientists predict the way they observe the universe is going to change. But why the discovery is such a big deal? What can astronomers and scientists do with gravitational waves?

Professor of astronomy Andrea Lommen thinks the gravitational waves discovery will revolutionize astronomy. It may improve understanding as much as Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei first looked the sky through his telescope, said Lommen from the Franklin & Marshall College.

NASA has made it official that its upcoming major telescope project is going to be the innovative Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST). The space telescope is expected to launch to the gravitational eddy called Earth-Sun L2, which is present at the distance of one million miles from Earth. The telescope could be setup by the 2020s.

The wide field instrument of the telescope will probably give way to fresh insights into baffling phenomena such as dark energy and dark matter, at the same time also boosting the search for likely habitable planets beyond the Solar System.

Latest NASA research suggests that the surface of Pluto’s moon Charon received its unique, cracked surface due to a natural event that occurred when it started cooling down.

As per NASA scientists, pictures from the agency’s New Horizons mission have suggested that there are a lot of chances that Charon had an ocean underneath its surface that had frozen with the passage of time.

The ‘pull apart’ tectonic faults that came out as ridges and valleys on the surface of Charon resulted at the time of moon expansion.

Charon’s outer layer is mostly composed of water ice. During the early days of the moon, its outer layer used to get warmth form the internal heat from its formation, as well as decaying radioactive elements.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has invited all space enthusiasts to submit their artistic endeavors on a journey aboard NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft. It will be the first US mission to collect asteroid sand and send it back to Earth for study.

OSIRIS-REx will launch in September, travelling to the asteroid Bennu. The #WeTheExplorers campaign has called the public to participate in the mission by expressing, via art, how the exploration spirit of the mission has reflected in their own lives.

The submitted artworks will be saved on a chip on the spacecraft. The spacecraft already has a chip with over 442,000 names, submitted in the 2014 ‘Messages to Bennu’ campaign.