Diverse underground ecosystems buried deep beneath the Earth's crust may offer clues to the origins of life on Earth, several recent studies have revealed.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Mar 16, 2013 5 / 5 (8) 1

The sun recently erupted with two coronal mass ejections (CMEs). One began at 8:36 p.m. EDT on March 12, 2013 and is directed toward three NASA spacecraft, Spitzer, Kepler and Epoxi. There is, however, no ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Mar 13, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 0

Mankind should not assume that it will definitely find life on alien planets according to a hypothesis being presented at the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science, this week. Professor Charles Cockell, Director ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Mar 12, 2013 3.3 / 5 (8) 51

How do bone-eating worms reproduce? A new study by Norio Miyamoto and colleagues from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology sheds light on this question through a detailed observation of ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 12, 2013 4.7 / 5 (3) 0

On March 2, 2013, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) entered its semiannual eclipse season, a period of three weeks when Earth blocks its view of the sun for a period of time each day. On March 11, however, ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Mar 11, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0

Water is an essential resource. Future demands for drinking water, energy production, and manufacturing prompted researchers working at the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) and University of ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 11, 2013 not rated yet 0

The recent meteor explosion over Chelyabinsk brought to the forefront a topic that has worried astronomers for years, namely that an impactor from space could cause widespread human fatalities. Indeed, the ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Mar 08, 2013 4.5 / 5 (12) 18

(Phys.org) —Something unexpected is happening on the Sun. 2013 was supposed to be the year of "solar maximum," the peak of the 11-year sunspot cycle. Yet 2013 has arrived and solar activity is relatively ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Mar 08, 2013 3.8 / 5 (5) 7

In a new twist on the state's mining history, a group of Idaho scientists will soon be crushing consumer electronics rather than rocks in a quest to recover precious materials. DOE's Ames Laboratory will ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Mar 05, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 1

A newly found asteroid will pass just inside the orbit of the Moon, with its closest approach on March 4, 2013 at 07:35 UTC. Named 2013 EC, the asteroid is about the size of the space rock that exploded over ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Mar 04, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 1

SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft has arrived at the International Space Station. After overcoming a problem with its thrusters after reaching orbit on on Friday, today, Dragon successfully approached the Station, w ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Mar 04, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has been temporarily put into "safe mode," as scientists monitoring from Earth try to fix a computer glitch, the US space agency said.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Mar 02, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 1

The colorful images chronicle the seasonal stirrings of our salty world: Pulses of freshwater gush from the Amazon River's mouth; an invisible seam divides the salty Arabian Sea from the fresher waters of ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Feb 27, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0

A campaign by global environmental movement Earth Hour to get promises of action from individuals and organisations has spread to at least 50 countries, its chief executive said Wednesday.

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 27, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—Eighty-three thousand man-made chemicals now circulate freely around the Earth, in water, soil, air, wildlife, food and manufactured goods and people, posing unquantified but genuine hazards to human and environmental ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 26, 2013 3.8 / 5 (4) 1