ScienceCasts: Stormy Space Weather
Forecasters say solar maximum is due in 2013. To prepare, the UN is organizing an international response to stormy space weather.
Category: Geophysical
ScienceCasts: Solar Max Double Peaked
Something unexpected is happening on the sun. 2013 is supposed to be the year of Solar Max, but solar activity is much lower than expected. At least one leading forecaster expects the sun to...
NASA Sees Monster Sunspot Growing Fast, Solar Storms Possible
Photo Credit: SPACE.com/NASA/SDO/AIA/HMI/Goddard Space Flight Center A colossal sunspot on the surface of the sun is large enough to swallow six Earths whole, and could trigger solar flares this week, NASA scientists say. The giant...
NASA | Fiery Looping Rain on the Sun
Eruptive events on the sun can be wildly different. Some come just with a solar flare, some with an additional ejection of solar material called a coronal mass ejection (CME), and some with complex...
Could largest-in-century meteor have been stopped?
Despite the huge size of the Russian meteor, its appearance in the skies was a surprise. It entered Earth’s atmosphere completely unnoticed by anyone. <iframe width=”540″ height=”304″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/58KLko50yE4″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>
Fireballs reported in skies above Cuba and California
Fireballs have been reported above Cuba and California in the same week that a meteor streaked across the skies over Russia. In Cuba on Tuesday, residents reported seeing a bright light in the sky...
Russian meteorite: Amazing video of explosion as seen by drivers in Urals region
A collection of dashboard camera footage captured, as the fireball skimmed across the skyline in front of motorists. Report by Ashley Fudge.
Asteroid 2012 DA14 set for record-breaking Earth pass
An asteroid as large as an Olympic swimming pool will race past the Earth on Friday at a distance of just 27,700km (17,200mi) – the closest ever predicted for an object of that size....
Hundreds injured by blasts as meteor falls in Russia
A meteor streaked through the sky and exploded Friday over Russia’s Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb, its sonic blasts shattering countless windows and injuring more than 750 people. The spectacle...
‘Record close’ asteroid may miss the Earth but it could take out your phone
The path of asteroid 2012 DA14’s approach to earth is shown in this graphic from NASA. Photo: NASA/REUTERS Scientists have dismissed fears an asteroid due to whizz past the Earth on Friday will ‘destroy London’...
