A massive solar flare could seriously disrupt life on Earth – but new NASA missions and others in development will help monitor the Sun.
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Unprecedented simulations show the formation of space tornadoes capable of causing strong geomagnetic storms around Earth, calling for earlier and more accurate warnings.
Space weather isn’t referring to rain clouds that float through the galaxy. Instead, it’s caused by massive explosions of particles that shoot out from the Sun.
Two geophysicists and an archaeologist teamed up to connect space weather 41,000 years ago to human behaviors that might have been in response – and show the value in cross-discipline teamwork.
For years, researchers have wondered what energy source allows the solar wind − a projection of charged particles from the Sun − to rush by at hundreds of miles a second.
The Sun will be at its most explosive right around the time NASA plans to put people back on the Moon.
The eclipse will allow scientists to get rare measurements of the Sun’s atmosphere.
Tiny pieces of an asteroid have revealed an unlikely origin for much of the water in Earth’s oceans.
Without a magnetic field, the Moon’s surface is exposed to solar wind. These could have been depositing resources like water and potential rocket fuel on the Moon’s surface for billions of years.
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