Part of sun turns into stormy ‘benevolent monster’
WASHINGTON (AP) — After years of quiet, the sun is coming alive with solar storms in a big way. The sun shot off a flare Thursday afternoon from a region that scientists are calling...
WASHINGTON (AP) — After years of quiet, the sun is coming alive with solar storms in a big way. The sun shot off a flare Thursday afternoon from a region that scientists are calling...
The Fermi space telescope has spotted the youngest-ever millisecond pulsar – a fast-spinning cosmic “lighthouse” that is the leftovers from a supernova.
An aircraft carrier-sized asteroid, a little over four football fields in diameter, is heading toward Earth and it will pass closer to our planet than the moon. NASA has classified the asteroid as a...
While rocket-science researchers at the 100 Year Starship Symposium pondered interstellar travel on a whole new class of spaceship over the weekend, theologians debated an equally paradigm-shifting concept: reconciling the Bible with life elsewhere in the...
According to Russian space official Sergei Krikalyov, recently discovered volcanic tunnels could provide natural shelter for the first colonists.
NASA scientists will be tracking asteroid 2005 YU55 with antennas of the agency’s Deep Space Network at Goldstone, Calif., as the space rock safely flies past Earth slightly closer than the moon’s orbit on...
Earth’s magnetic field is still reverberating from a CME strike on March 10, 2011 which resulted in a G1-class geomagnetic storm. Northern Lights have rippling over the US-Canadian border into states such as Wisconsin,...
CMEs are billion-ton clouds of solar plasma launched by the same sun explosions that spark solar flares.
For the first time, a spacecraft far from Earth has turned and watched a solar storm engulf our planet.