An illustration shows solar flares on the surface of the sun. A scientist is predicting a massive solar storm could disrupt the internet for months sometime in the next decade. Illustration by Tobias Roetsch/Future Publishing via Getty Images A so-called “internet apocalypse” could be on the horizon as a result of an impending solar superstorm, …
The Perseus Molecular Cloud complex, one of the nearest star forming regions and rich in young … [+] stellar objects. getty The ingredients for life may have formed in interstellar space alongside stars or planets and be far older than scientists thought, according to new research by chemists. It suggests that the James Webb Space …
A COP28 visitor in Dubai engages with “Passage of Water,” an immersive installation that sounds an … [+] alarm on the dwindling supply of global freshwater. Yiyun Kang/Google Arts & Culture Looking at the satellite images side by side, it’s impossible to miss the difference. In one shot, China’s largest freshwater lake brims with bright …
The sun in extreme ultraviolet light as seen by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory in October 2014. NASA/SDO An international team consisting of scientists from nine countries has published a detailed study on a lesser-known solar storm—named Chapman-Silverman event after two astronomers who collected the first data—that hit Earth in February 1872. Their findings confirm that …
The Perseus Molecular Cloud complex, one of the nearest star forming regions and rich in young … [+] stellar objects. getty The ingredients for life may have formed in interstellar space alongside stars or planets and be far older than scientists thought, according to new research by chemists. It suggests that the James Webb Space …
25 November 2023, Lower Saxony, Bad Zwischenahn: Northern lights dance over the Zwischenahner Meer … [+] on Saturday. Photo: Markus Hibbeler/dpa (Photo by Markus Hibbeler/picture alliance via Getty Images) dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images UPDATE: original quotes were added to reflect exactly where aurora will be visible in the U.S. as well as information about …
Space-based solar power for Earth Andreas Treuer At this week’s U.N. Climate Change Conference in Dubai, there’s one climate mitigation strategy that’s not likely to be widely discussed. That’s unfortunate because the idea of harvesting solar energy from orbit and beaming it back to Earth has been around since the late 1960s. That’s when American …
Inside the Gruta do Natal, a network of underground lava caves on the Azores Island of Terceira Bruce Dorminey Somewhat akin to astronomical dark matter (the unseen stuff thought to make up some 80 percent of all matter in the cosmos), so-called microbiological ‘dark matter’ here on Earth poses almost as much of a conundrum …
The detected cosmic ray had an estimated energy of 244 EeV, comparable to the most energetic cosmic … [+] ray ever observed Osaka Metropolitan University/L-INSIGHT, Kyoto University/Ryuunosuke Takeshige A high-energy particle has fallen from space, and scientists have no idea what it is or where it came from. It occurred during an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray …
NASA will exchange no messages with its fleet of Mars rovers and orbiters because of the red … [+] planet’s solar conjunction. Getty Space agencies in the U.S., Europe and China have temprarily lost contact with a vast fleet of spacecraft at Mars. That includes three rovers, one helicopter and seven orbiters. The cause is …