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Posted 02.16.2013
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Science
By Daniel Clery For the past century, physicists have puzzled over cosmic rays, particles (mostly protons) that hurtle through space at high spe...
By: Charles Q. Choi Published: 12/31/2012 06:41 PM EST on SPACE.com Radiation in space might harm the brains of astronauts in deep space by accele...
By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 11/28/2012 01:14 PM EST on SPACE.com Something big happened in the year A.D. 774. Scientists studying tree rings fo...
By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 08/01/2012 02:23 PM EDT on SPACE.com Cosmic rays continue to puzzle scientists a century after the fast-moving par...
There are several paintings in the museum of people who donated money or collections, but this one wasn't a typical portrait. The man and woman in the painting were dressed in climbing gear and kneeling on a mountain summit, holding an American flag and the flag of the National Geographic Society.
In 775 C.E., while Charlemagne was ruling his Frankish kingdom, something mysterious struck Earth. An analysis of the rings of two Japanese cedar...
By: Charles Q. Choi Published: 05/10/2012 02:36 PM EDT on SPACE.com The sun is zipping through interstellar space more slowly than once thought,...
Anything getting close to the sun -- with temperatures estimated at 9,900 Fahrenheit -- would surely burn up. However, if that object were an alie...
By: Charles Q. Choi Published: 04/18/2012 01:08 PM EDT on SPACE.com The mystery of the origin of the strongest cosmic rays has deepened as new c...
You shot yourself in the foot by calling them Space Shuttles. "Shuttles" don't boldly go where no man has gone before, they go to Chicago, and occasionally bring you from Parking Lot T to the front entrance of the State Fair.
The growth of British trees appears to follow a cosmic pattern, with trees growing faster when high levels of cosmic radiation arrive from space....
