Space

Iceland’s Eruptions Reveal the Hot History of Mars

Quanta Magazine: After 15 months of increasingly intense and disruptive earthquakes on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula, the region finally let off some pressure. On March 19, lava roared out of the ground in the uninhabited valley of Geldingadalur, marking the first time…

How Space Lasers Could Soon Beam Clean Power Down To Earth

Forbes: The idea of space-based laser weapons orbiting the earth has been a part of popular culture and real life government projects for decades, from James Bond’s Goldeneye to Ronald Reagan’s ambitious “Star Wars” program. Recently, the Pentagon began developing…

Space hurricane observed in the Earth’s upper atmosphere

Physics World: A space hurricane – complete with electron “rain” – has been detected in the Earth’s upper atmosphere for the first time, an international team of researchers has reported. With the requisite plasma and magnetic fields needed for such storms…

Spacecraft in a ‘warp bubble’ could travel faster than light, claims physicist

Physics World: Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity famously dictates that no known object can travel faster than the speed of light in vacuum, which is 299,792 km/s. This speed…