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...
Solar wind parameters over the past 12 hours indicated the arrival of a slow-moving Coronal Mass Ejection (CME), likely produced on April 10. A period of G1 - Minor storming began at 08:59 UTC on...
Solar activity refers to the state of the sun’s magnetic field and associated phenomena: sunspots, flares, solar wind and coronal ejections. During periods of minimal solar activity, such events are often uncommon and weak. During solar maximum,...
A strong M7.9 solar flare erupted from Active Region 3098 at 09:49 UTC on September 16, 2022. The event started 09:44 and ended at 09:56 UTC.
The region is located on the west limb of the...
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...
A STREAM of radiation from the biggest solar flare seen in years was responsible for a tech blackout this weekend, astronomers have announced.
The "significant" solar flare was detected on the Sun on July 3 and...
SOLAR STORMS have the potential to cripple Earth's technology and scientists are sounding the alarm bells on the "extreme" threat that could head our way from space.
A major solar storm has not struck the planet...
A slow-moving fireball lit up the night sky over Andalucía, Spain, at 21:33 UTC (23:33 LT) on Monday, June 14, 2021. The spectacular event was mostly witnessed in the provinces of Sevilla, Malaga, and Cadiz. According...
A newly-discovered asteroid designated 2023 TV3 will fly past Earth at a distance of 0.2 LD / 0.00056 AU (83 034 km / 51 595 miles) at 12:54 UTC on October 12, 2023.
This is the...
In a record-breaking discovery, scientists detected our very own sun emitting an extraordinary amount of gamma rays — wavelengths of light known to carry the most energy of any other wavelength in the electromagnetic spectrum. This is...