Jul 26, 2013 by Natali Anderson

U.S. researchers believe they have answered a long-standing question about how electrons in the Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts can suddenly become...

Jul 3, 2013 by News Staff

Dr Iannis Dandouras from the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse, France, has found the first conclusive proof of the existence...

Apr 29, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

French researchers have determined that the temperature of the Earth’s core is 10,800 degrees Fahrenheit (6,000 oC) – about 1,800 oF (1,000 oC)...

Mar 7, 2013 by News Staff

U.S. researchers have discovered a long-lived zone of high-energy electrons stored between Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts. Two giant swaths of radiation,...

Sep 14, 2012 by News Staff

A new study by a multinational team of scientists supports the idea that viruses are ancient living organisms and not inanimate molecular remnants run...

Jul 30, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

In a new study, geologists at the University of Texas at Austin have examined large-scale polygons on Mars and compared them to similar features on Earth’s...

Jul 3, 2012 by News Staff

European scientists have discovered a 100 km-wide crater, the result of a massive asteroid or comet impact a billion years before any other known collision...