Aug 07 The $2 trillion economic risk you haven't heard about By Donald Goldsmith Beyond Earth's atmosphere lurks a threat that could knock out our electrical grid and cause catastrophic structural, not to mention economic, damage. The risk within the next decade is about as great as that of another earthquake shaking California. So… Continue reading
Jul 26 Solar 'superstorm' missed Earth in 2012 -- but another could strike By Xander Landen Two years ago, the worst solar storm in almost two centuries tore through Earth's orbit. Luckily, the storm's path just missed Earth. Continue reading
Jun 03 Harsh space winds diminish hopes for life on red-dwarf planets By Talia Mindich Space winds in the habitable zones of the most common star in the galaxy may be too severe to harbor life, a new study finds. Continue reading
May 07 Simulating 13 billion years of the universe By Ellen Rolfes A team at MIT has created a simulation that traces the evolution of dark matter, dark energy gas and dust, as well as stars, galaxies and black holes -- beginning around 12 million years after the Big Bang. Continue reading
Apr 17 Watch Kepler telescope spots a planet that seems a lot like home By PBS News Hour NASA scientists say the Kepler space telescope may have discovered the most “Earth-like” planet yet. Circling a star about 500 light-years away, planet Kepler 186-F may be the right temperature to allow liquid water to flow on its surface. Hari… Continue watching
Mar 27 Comet 'Siding Spring' will make close approach to Mars By Justin Scuiletti Comet C/2013 A1 will be making a trip through Mars’ neighborhood in October. The comet, also called Siding Spring, will be knocking on the Red Planet’s door, in the astronomical sense, as it passes by Mars at a distance of… Continue reading
Mar 18 'Ripples' of the Big Bang reveal the beginning of the universe By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Update, 10:52 a.m. Mar. 18 EDT: Video by Stanford University shows Professor Andrei Linde and his wife's surprise when they are told for the first time there is evidence supporting cosmic inflation theory. "It just overwhelms," Mr. Linde said. Continue reading
Mar 17 Scientists find 'smoking gun' evidence from the creation of the universe By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Scientists believe that less than a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang, the universe began to rapidly expand as fast as the speed of light. With a radio telescope at the South Pole, scientists followed gravitational waves which… Continue reading
Jul 12 Watch Astronomy, Art and Education Collide in 'African Cosmos' Astronomy, Art and Education Collide in "African Cosmos."… Continue watching