This weekend, three enormous asteroids will make a ‘close approach’ to Earth, NASA has warned. The asteroids - the biggest of which is predicted to measure up to 30 metres across - will whizz past our planet on November 10. At...
Authorities this week confirmed that a large fireball streaked its way across the skies of multiple states, a sight that was reportedly accompanied by a loud booming noise as well. As many as several dozen people...
The asteroid, known as 4660 Nereus, is due to pass planet Earth on December 11. The 330-metre-long asteroid, which is larger than the Shard in London, is travelling at speeds of up to four miles...
Solar activity refers to the state of the sun’s magnetic field and associated phenomena: sunspots, flares, solar wind and coronal ejections. During periods of minimal solar activity, such events are often uncommon and weak. During solar maximum,...
A spectacular solar eclipse will be visible across the entire continental U.S. this weekend, offering people from coast to coast the chance to see the moon take a “bite” out of the sun and affording lucky sky-watchers...
(The Watchers) A long-duration C5.6 solar flare erupted from Active Region 3060 at 01:11 UTC on July 21, 2022, producing a faint full halo coronal mass ejection (CME). A Type II Radio Emission with an estimated...
US authorities have issued a minor geomagnetic storm watch for the planet as scientists observed powerful flares on the sun over the weekend. The US Space Weather Prediction Center said the storm may hit Tuesday as it issued...
Earth will have some relatively close encounters with asteroids in the coming days, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  Five asteroids will make an approach to earth, one of them is...
An "erupting filament of magnetism" has been spewed into the solar system by the Sun at 328 kilometres per second, and it could collide with Earth. The solar storm has been caused by a swirling pool of...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a stark warning that a G1 level geomagnetic storm, the least powerful kind (geomagnetic storms are ranked from 1-5, with intensity ranked lowest to highest) was upgraded...