Earth
Earth Hour 2009 – Where Will You Be When The Lights Go Out?
With less than six weeks to go, more than 500 cities around the world have officially agreed to go dark…
New Company Looks to Produce Space Based Solar Power Within a Decade
[/caption] Is space-based solar power (SBSP) a technology whose time has come? The concept and even some of the hardware…
NASA Study Predicted Outbreak of Deadly Virus
Scientists have long suspected that climatic variables like sea surface temperature and precipitation could foreshadow outbreaks of disease. Now, they…
Climate Change Satellite gets Green Light for Launch
The European Space Agency's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite has been cleared for takeoff, following nearly a year…
Google Oceans, Google Mars
[/caption] Google Earth now allows you to probe the depths of Earth's oceans as well as fly through the giant…
Global Warming May Be Irreversible
A new paper published by a leading researcher says many effects of climate change are already irreversible. Susan Solomon, a…
Old Space Observatory Spare Parts to Search for Dirty Bombs
[/caption]From 1991 to 2000, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory dominated the search for the largest explosions ever observed in the…
NASA Aids California Wildfire Fight: An Opinion from the Smoke
[/caption] This morning at 5:30am, I woke up to the smell of smoke. It's one of those horrid, gut-wrenching feelings…
Ozone Hole Bigger Again
[/caption] Is the ozone hole was recovering? Maybe not. The protective atmospheric layer of ozone around our planet has been…
2012: No Geomagnetic Reversal
[/caption]Apparently, on December 21st 2012, our planet will experience a powerful event. This time we're not talking about Planet X,…