A University of Washington-led international team of astronomers has used data gathered by the Kepler Space Telescope to observe and confirm details of the outermost of seven exoplanets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1. They confirmed that the planet, TRAPPIST-1h, orbits its star every 18.77 days, is linked in its orbital path to its siblings and is […]
I walked around the chain-link fence of Pump Station 12 of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, apprehensive about the human encounter to come. It was time to send a weekly column. I needed a Wi-Fi signal or a cellular bar or two. I had walked more than a week through air devoid of communications waves. With Cora […]
Bethel-based AST revealed via the trooper dispatch on Monday that a police department employee in the village of Nunapitchuk had been the subject of a sexual assault late last week. Following the report at 4 pm on Thursday, the Bethel Violent Offenders Unit responded to the southwest Alaska community to investigate the allegations. Their investigation […]
On Tuesday, the world is minus a famous “Bond.” 89-year-old Sir Roger Moore died in Switzerland after a brief bout with cancer, his family revealed. His three children, Deborah, Geoffrey and Christian, released a statement following Moore’s passing, saying “It is with a heavy heart that we must announce our loving father, Sir Roger Moore, has passed […]