Earth
Are We Living in a New Geologic Epoch?
Have humans changed our planet Earth so much in the past 200 years that we are now living in a…
US Spy Satellite Could Crash To Earth In February
After all the excitement surrounding the possibility of asteroid 2007 WD5 hitting Mars and the concern of Near Earth Asteroid…
Using GPS Could Better Tsunami Warning System
When there is a tsunami coming towards your home, you want to know about it as far in advance as…
Regulating Traffic in the Final Frontier
October of last year was the 50th anniversary of Sputnik, the first spacecraft to be launched into orbit. Since then,…
Study Shows More Antarctic Ice Loss
Increasing amounts of ice mass have been lost from West Antarctica and the Antarctic peninsula over the past ten years,…
Radioactive Hot Spots on Earth’s Beaches May Have Sparked Life
We've heard about life being created in a puddle of primordial chemical soup, sparked by lightning strikes, or organic molecules…
Magnetic “Ropes” Connect the Northern Lights to the Solar Wind
This discovery comes just in time to light up Christmas: new observations of the Northern Lights – a spectacular phenomenon…
Cancer Rates Rise and Fall with Cosmic Rays
Cancer is a mysterious and complicated disease, with many different types and causes. Researchers are still trying to track down…
Earth Had Oxygen Earlier Than Believed
Take a nice deep breath, fill your lungs with oxygen. You can thank the plants for that. Scientists had originally…
Earth’s Iron Building Blocks
The iron meteorites whizzing around the Solar System are probably remnants of objects that helped form the Earth and the…