Do You Need to Worry About an Asteroid Hitting Earth?
It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have been six to nine miles in length. On the other hand, on Feb. 15, 2013, an ...
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Scientists Build Space Weather ‘Traffic Light’ to Protect Earth from Dangerous Solar Storms
Geomagnetic storms also cause problems on Earth. The electric currents they create can overload power plants and cause ...
Earth grew an extra, never-before-seen 'radiation belt' after last year's supercharged solar storm — and it's probably still there
Data collected from a once-defunct NASA satellite show that Earth grew two extra radiation belts following a supercharged ...
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The Solar Flare That Could Send Us Back to the Stone Age
Introduction to Solar Flares Solar flares are spectacular, yet potentially dangerous, eruptions of energy from the Sun's ...
Northern Lights Forecast: These 10 States May Get Aurora Borealis Tonight From Geomagnetic Storm
More northern U.S. states are expected to see aurora borealis Monday night as an incoming geomagnetic storm is expected to ...
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Remember the northern lights that reached Florida? The solar storm created radiation belts around Earth
The most powerful solar storm to impact Earth in decades caused the temporary formation of radiation belts around Earth, NASA recently announced. A NASA CubeSat satellite made the discovery, which ...