5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (406+ words) Image Credit: Royal Astronomical Society Richard Carrington is an English astronomer who contributed significanlty to our understanding of the sun. He is best known for documenting the Carrington Event in 1859. This event was the strongest known solar storm. It was…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (166+ words) NASA's Juno spacecraft passed north-to-south (yellow track) over Jupiter's atmosphere on 17 August 2022, detecting a cluster of radio pulses from lightning (cyan symbols marking instrument pointing for each pulse). Background map from the Hubble Space Telescope identified the lightning source as…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (194+ words) The latest news briefs from NASA science. Plants exposed to artificial lighting burst into bloom earlier and flower longer than plants exposed exclusively to natural sunlight. A recent study that relies on NASA satellite data found that this effect raises…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago   (334+ words) New study shows how a major space storm dramatically shrank Earth’s protective plasma layer and slowed its recovery, helping improve solar storm forecasts and protect space infrastructure we rely on. image: Scientists have captured the first detailed observations of how…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1224+ words) Written by Dr. Matthew Wielicki on November 25, 2025. Posted in Current News A few days of solar fireworks were all it took to remind us of a basic truth: the universe is not a friendly place During the recent severe solar…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago   (533+ words) In May 2024, Earth was hit by the strongest geomagnetic storm in more than 20 years. Known as the Gannon storm or the “Mother’s Day storm,” it was triggered by a series of massive solar eruptions that sent huge clouds of charged…...

10+ mon, 1+ day ago   (262+ words) Astronomers revealed Wednesday they have detected a storm on a star other than our Sun for the first time, discovering an explosion so violent it could have stripped away the atmosphere of any planets unlucky enough to be nearby.Â…...

10+ mon, 22+ hour ago   (525+ words) The Sun has spent the past few days hurling repeated bursts of energy and plasma toward Earth, unleashing a sequence of geomagnetic storms that lit up skies across continents and sent satellites and power grids into a state of high…...

10+ mon, 1+ day ago   (198+ words) A massive X5.1-rated solar flare — the strongest in over a year — has been causing a severe geomagnetic storm in North America and around the world. That's set to continue on Wednesday, Nov. 12, but the solar flare also caused something that's…...

10+ mon, 2+ day ago   (320+ words) In a striking display of solar fury, a recent burst of high-energy particles from the Sun has created what scientists are calling a “hailstorm in space.” The phenomenon was dramatically captured by the SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft. In…...