Solar activity reached moderate levels in 24 hours to 00:30 UTC on January 30, 2022, due to a long-duration M1.1 solar flare at 23:32 UTC on January 29 from Region 2936 (N17E05, Dkc/beta). The region produced numerous...
The Sun has catapulted out fast solar winds from the outermost part of its atmosphere. These have raised the threat of solar storms striking earth. The biggest storms come as a result of a coronal...
On 7 June 2021, NASA’s Jupiter space probe Juno conducted a close flyby of the giant planet’s moon, Ganymede, and recorded some bizarre sounds. They used the probes "Waves" instrument to record the moon's electromagnetic waves, which are...
A bright fireball was recorded as it streaked through the night sky over Indiana at 01:04 UTC on December 8, 2021. The event lasted about 4 seconds. The American Meteor Society (AMS) has so far received...
Last week, a lonely SpaceX rocket blasted off from California with NASA's ambitious Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). The first-of-its-kind mission will rendezvous with a duo of asteroids next year, called Didymos and Dimorphos, to test the Earth's best - and...
The asteroid, known as 4660 Nereus, is due to pass planet Earth on December 11. The 330-metre-long asteroid, which is larger than the Shard in London, is travelling at speeds of up to four miles...
On a winter morning in 2013, a meteor the size of a four-story building screamed across the country, exploding near the city of Chelyabinsk and injuring more than 1,600 people amid widespread property damage. The chunk...
You can see the longest partial lunar eclipse in hundreds of years this week. The "nearly total" lunar eclipse is expected overnight Thursday, Nov. 18, to Friday, Nov. 19, NASA said. "The Moon will be so close...
In the 1998 Hollywood blockbuster Armageddon, Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck race to save the Earth from being pulverized by an asteroid. Next year we will experience it live! NASA plans to crash a spacecraft traveling...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a stark warning that a G1 level geomagnetic storm, the least powerful kind (geomagnetic storms are ranked from 1-5, with intensity ranked lowest to highest) was upgraded...