What John Glenn learns during his historic return to space could have a major impact on how you heat and cool your home.
Geomagnetic storms pose a big threat to the routine technologies which support our everyday living.
Now a new alert system gives space physicists an unprecendented one-hour advance warning of approaching geomagnetic storms. Scientists are now discovering there are many more of these cosmic entities than previously thought. NASA is using Earth's simpliest organisms as the basis for sophisticated life-support systems which might allow astronauts to colonize the Moon, Mars, and beyond.