Sunspots and solar flares, created by the sun’s magnetism, can affect the Earth’s surface
The sun’s magnetic activity causes auroras, and the relationship between solar flares and auroras reveals an 11-year cycle; ...
Spacecraft completed for NASA's TRACERS mission, key milestone passed
The twin spacecraft of NASA's TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission were ...
Can we live on our planet without destroying it? Researcher investigates planetary boundaries
With eight billion people, we use a lot of the Earth's resources in ways that are likely unsustainable. Klaus Hubacek, ...
New Scientist12h
Millions of phones create most complete map ever of the ionosphere
Researchers mapped Earth’s ionosphere, part of the upper atmosphere, using signal data from 40 million phones – a method that ...
Yahoo13h
Google used millions of Android phones to map the worst enemy of GPS
In the end, the researchers were able to use the vast web of Android phones to map out the ionosphere ... of detail in this ...
NASA Monitors As Bus-Sized Asteroid Approaches Earth Today
The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.
Space.com14h
'Snowball Earth:' Entire planet was likely covered in ice more than 600 million years ago
This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...
Live Science17h
'Missing link' found in ancient rocks of Colorado show that Snowball Earth really happened
Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of ...
NASA James Webb Telescope Revelations Challenge Theory of Gravity
If another gravity theory is correct, "then the broader implications are enormous," astrophysicist Stacy McGaugh told ...