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NASA has confirmed that the Sun is at solar maximum, the peak of its 11-year cycle. This phase brings more frequent auroras and powerful space weather events, which could last…

A decades-old mystery about the sun’s outer atmosphere has been solved by researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Their discovery shows that reflected Alfvén waves are responsible for the…

Astronomers have discovered a new sungrazer comet, C/2024 S1 (ATLAS), which could become visible to the naked eye later this month. Making its closest approach to Earth on October 24,…

SpaceX is preparing for its fifth Starship test flight (IFT-5), potentially launching as soon as October 13, 2024, pending regulatory approval from the FAA. This test flight is a key…

In a stunning new discovery, ESA’s Solar Orbiter has captured the first-ever footage of fully developed turbulence in the Sun’s corona, offering unprecedented insights into the origins of the solar…

A newly discovered Earth-like planet orbiting a dead star provides insights into Earth’s potential survival after the Sun becomes a white dwarf. Located around 4,000 light-years away, the planet endured…

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured a stunning timelapse of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS from the International Space Station, offering a rare view of the comet as it approaches its closest pass to…

Earth's endless journey around the sun has been happening for billions of years, but just how many orbits has it completed? And what does this tell us about the future…

Sunspot activity on the Sun has reached its highest level in 23 years, with an average of 215.5 sunspots per day recorded in August 2024, according to Live Science. This...

In an extraordinary event, a massive solar storm that erupted in April 2023 temporarily disrupted Earth's magnetosphere, opening up a rare, two-hour magnetic highway between the Sun and Earth. This...

On August 5, 2024, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) observed two significant solar flares. These twin X-class flares, the most intense type of solar flare, erupted from the Sun, providing...

A remarkable digital artwork has been created by astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy, who meticulously combined over 100,000 images of the sun captured through a specially modified telescope. This stunning 375-megapixel image...

Samsung has recently rolled out an important update to enhance the security of its phones. However, this option must be activated in the settings to be effective. With the rise...

A recent study conducted by a collaborative team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Bucharest has revealed that solar radiation may significantly impact Earth's...

The sun, our dynamic and life-sustaining star, is showing early signs of transitioning to its next solar cycle, despite being only halfway through its current one. This surprising development has...

Recent discoveries using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have confirmed significant differences between the eternal morning and evening atmospheres on the distant exoplanet WASP-39b. This giant planet, located approximately...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its 20th close approach to the sun, achieving a significant milestone in its mission to study the solar corona. This remarkable feat underscores...

On July 5, 2024, at around 1 a.m., Earth reached its farthest point from the Sun, known as aphelion. This annual event raises an intriguing question: why are we experiencing...

A team of solar physicists at NYU Abu Dhabi's Center for Astrophysics and Space Science (CASS) has made significant discoveries about the Sun’s supergranules using data from the Solar Dynamics...

A particularly long-lived and violent sunspot cluster, designated AR 3723, has rotated back into view for the third time, promptly firing off an M9.3 solar flare. This cluster, which has...

Solar flares are sudden, intense bursts of radiation emanating from the sun's atmosphere. These powerful explosions are caused by the release of magnetic energy stored in the sun's atmosphere, often...

On June 3, 2024, the sun treated scientists and space enthusiasts to a spectacular event: an M-class solar flare that produced a massive plasma plume. Captured in stunning detail by...

Blue Origin is set to resume its space tourism missions with the launch of NS-25, marking the first crewed flight since August 2022. The mission will carry six passengers, including...

In a display of cosmic fireworks, the gargantuan sunspot AR3664 has emitted an X3.98-class solar flare, its most powerful burst to date. This event, which occurred in the early hours...

In a striking astronomical event, a super group of sunspots named AR3638-50 emerged on April 25th and 26th, marking an intense period of solar activity. The consequences of this event...

Posted on May 20, 2022 in Astronomy, Science The ESA has captured a stunning image of the 4.5 billion-year-old glowing ball of hydrogen and helium at the center of our...

Today’s stories range from How Mammals Conquered the World after the Asteroid Apocalypse to New Type of Magnetic Wave Discovered Sweeping Across Earth’s Outer Core, and much more. The Planet...

Posted on Apr 15, 2022 in Science Forget about the hand-held laser guns used in Star Trek. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image above shows a megamaser, IRAS 16399-0937, located over...

The “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our knowledge of Planet Earth and the...

Posted on Jan 5, 2022 in Astronomy, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA The James Webb Space Telescope team has fully deployed the spacecraft’s tennis-court-sized 70-foot sunshield, a key milestone...

The young star Eta Carinae –one of the most massive in the Milky Way – survived a titanic eruption 170 years ago. Although located relatively far away from Earth (about...

“We started asking ourselves why we had not found it earlier, because it’s very extreme in its properties and very bright,” says Michael McDonald, assistant professor of physics in MIT’s...

Posted on Apr 2, 2021 in Climate Change, Science, Technology “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalist about the discoveries, technology, people, and events...

Posted on Jan 5, 2023 in Astronomy, Science Jackie Faherty, astrophysicist, Senior Scientist with AMNH via Carnegie Institution for Science. Jackie was formerly a NASA Hubble Fellow at the Carnegie...

Posted on Mar 8, 2021 in Astronomy, Black Holes, Galaxies, Science In 2019, the Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of one of the brightest known quasars in early universe,...

Posted on Mar 15, 2021 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Science, Solar System “It’s increasingly seeming that the solar system is something of an oddball,” said Gregory Laughlin, a planetary scientist at...

Posted on Jan 25, 2021 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Science, Space “Secretive Beasts” –Radio Observatory Discovers Two of the Largest Objects in the Universe Titanic Explosion in Andromeda –A Prelude? “Heracles”...

So far, we have had only close calls from gamma ray explosions so large, scientists have suggested, that if they occurred within our solar neighborhood (less than 1,000 light years)...

Posted on Apr 8, 2022 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Milky Way Galaxy, Science “The system exists against the odds,” said Brian Powell, a data scientist at NASA’s High Energy Astrophysics Science...

When we consider the origins of life in our Solar System, a remarkable discovery has to be taken into account –the Solar System is substantially over-abundant in metals compared with...

Posted on Nov 12, 2020 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Science, Supernova “Although Earth was originally created from the Sun (as part of the ecliptic plane of debris and dust that circulated...

In a half-second flash of light in May of this year, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope detected the most powerful explosion since the Big Bang –the brightest infrared light from a...

Posted on Nov 16, 2020 in Science “Our Original Sun was a Supernova” –Has the Phenomenon Effected Earth’s Evolution and Climate? “Violent Drag of Dark Matter”– Is Turning Up the...

Posted on Nov 19, 2020 in Astronomy, Black Holes, Science, Space “In a sense, the galaxy hardest for us to see is our own,” wrote Issac Assimov. “For one thing,...

“Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our knowledge of Planet Earth and the future...

Posted on Aug 19, 2020 in Astronomy, Science Astronomers estimate that up to 100 billion brown dwarfs make their home in our Milky Way Galaxy. Yet it remains unclear how...

Posted on Jul 22, 2020 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Science Today the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released the first ever image of a multi-planet system around a young, Sun-like star...

Posted on Jul 7, 2020 in Astronomy, Milky Way Galaxy Nyx, a vast new stellar stream discovered in the vicinity of the Sun, named after the Greek goddess of the...

Posted on Jul 7, 2020 in Astronomy, Science “Our observations show that Sun-like stars actually create lithium later in their lives, after they have swelled to become red giants. This...

Posted on Jun 4, 2020 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial Life The most abundant types of star in our Milky Way galaxy are red dwarfs, hosting the bulk of our galaxy’s...