It's Raining Frigid Gas At This Giant Black Hole
Space A new kind of space weather New kind of space weather found near black hole…
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Science Helping the Earth combat solar storms The Earth's magnetic field protects the planet from solar storms. But the planet's crust plays a role, too…
View ArticleWe're About To Get Regional Forecasts For Solar Storms
Energy Cloudy with a chance of coronal mass ejection Forecasting the path of a storm is hard enough. But forecasting the path of a storm headed towards Earth from a distance of 92.6 million miles?...
View ArticleNASA observatory captures a rare stretch of our sun without spots
Space Like a giant egg yolk in the sky How often does the sun show itself without a spot to be seen? Read on.
View ArticleWe may have accidentally formed a protective bubble around Earth
Space Radio waves might help protect us from space weather. Some radio waves may be forming a protective bubble around Earth’s atmosphere. Read on.
View ArticleA car-sized spacecraft just blasted off toward the Sun
Space The Parker Solar Probe is our first mission to "touch" the Sun Just like beachgoers looking to get a tan, NASA has its own date with the Sun this summer. On August 12, the agency launched the...
View ArticleThe weirdest things we learned this week: baby skeleton art, zombie...
Science Our editors scrounged up some truly bizarre facts. What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer if you listen to...
View ArticleThat time a bunch of underwater mines exploded and the sun was the only suspect
Space Some serious space weather at play. On that day in 1972, over the course of 30 seconds, American troops flying near North Vietnam witnessed between 20 and 25 explosions in the water.
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