Small solar eruptions can have profound effects on unprotected planets
While no one yet knows what's needed to build a habitable planet, it's clear that the interplay between the sun and Earth is crucial for making our planet livable - a balance between a sun that prov ... more
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The Solar System and Beyond is Awash in Water
As NASA missions explore our solar system and search for new worlds, they are finding water in surprising places. Water is but one piece of our search for habitable planets and life beyond Earth, ye ... more
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Mars' dust-covered glacial belts may contain tons of water
New research shows Mars' buried glaciers contain enough ice to cover the entire planet with a coat three feet thick. The evidence also proves the dust-covered glacial belts to contain frozen water, not carbon dioxide. ... more
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DARPA Seeks to Create Software Systems That Could Last 100 Years
As modern software systems continue inexorably to increase in complexity and capability, users have become accustomed to periodic cycles of updating and upgrading to avoid obsolescence-if at some co ... more
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Aliens Are Probably Huge 650-Pound Creatures
New research proposes that if intelligent life outside Earth's atmosphere exists, chances are it's enormous.
The findings from University of Barcelona cosmologist Dr. Fergus Simpson are based ... more
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Unravelling relativistic effects in the heaviest actinide element
An international collaboration led by the research group of superheavy elements at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tokai, Japan has achieved the ionization potential measurement of lawrencium ... more
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A glass fiber that brings light to a standstill
Light is an extremely useful tool for quantum communication, but it has one major disadvantage: it usually travels at the speed of light and cannot be kept in place. A team of scientists at the Vien ... more
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