For many years, scientists have hypothesized that a weak electrical discharge called In this study, Patrick McFarland, a meteorologist and atmospheric scientist at Pennsylvania State University, and his research team attached a special retractable weather observation device to a 2013 OpenAI…
Home - Science - About 9 million lightning flashes recorded over northern Europe from 1998 to 2019 show extreme lightning days came roughly twice as often during high-speed solar wind, and storm clouds still had to come first Extreme lightning days over northern Europe came…
Hoosiers will have one of the best chances of the year to view the International Space Station Friday night. The only thing that could ruin our chance to catch it streaking across the sky? The ISS will appear as a…
A colorful aurora lit up the sky over Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland on Oct. 10. What would you like to watch today?
Background: Importance and complexity of the ionosphere The problem is that the electron density varies greatly -- depending on the longitude and latitude above the Earth, the time of day and year, and solar activity. This makes it difficult to reconstruct…
Scientists from NASA and three universities have presented new discoveries about the way heat and energy move and manifest in the ionosphere, a region of Earth's atmosphere that reacts to changes from both space above and Earth below. Changes in…
The Government Accountability Office said in a report released Friday that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration could go several months without an operational spare weather satellite if the first Geostationary Extended Observations, or GeoXO, satellite launches in 2032 as expected.
Updated October 21, 20264 👨💻 The Sun is far from quiet: solar flares and other eruptions can seriously disrupt a technology-dependent world. Severe space-weather events can affect power grids, satellites, radio communications and navigation systems on Earth. This page tracks solar and geomagnetic…
A decaying sunspot nearing the Sun's western edge produced the strongest flare of the day, but the aurora chance for northern-tier states hinges on a separate stream of fast solar wind. Sunspot region AR4551 fired a moderate M-class solar flare early…
The northern lights may make an appearance in up to nine states Monday night, according to a forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which predicts mild auroral activity across the northernmost reaches of the U.S. A Kp index of…
Aurora Forecasts in the Northern Lights: the news, the names and what changed.
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