Radio in Africa and the Middle East was disrupted Friday by a large solar flare
The solar flare, classified as M8 in the second-most energetic category of flares, departed from the sun at 5:49 a.m. EDT (0949 GMT) on Friday, disrupting shortwave radio communications in…
BREAKING: Jupiter is approaching! The largest planet in the solar system is closest to Earth
There will be something special to see in the sky Monday night for astronomers, both professional and amateur. Jupiter will be closer to Earth than usual on…
In the sky of New Zealand, there is an exploding meteorite fireball
Greg Price set up his camera in the hope that he would capture an aurora from his home in Richmond, Nelson when he “got lucky” and captured…
Breaking: NASA will crash a spacecraft into an asteroid on September 26. Watch it live today
You can watch all the action from NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirect Mission (DART) live here at Space.com and on NASA TV (opens in new tab), including on impact day (Sept. 26)….
No one noticed a giant Solar storm hitting the Earth at a million miles an hour
A G1-class geomagnetic storm hit the Earth last Saturday, causing bright auroras over Canada, Newsweek reported. The only problem is that nobody saw this storm coming until…
It’s official: The “twin” planet to Earth has been found by NASA
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope discovered an Earth-like planet circling a nearby star within the Goldilocks zone of our galaxy. Kepler-186f is around 500 light-years from Earth in the Cygnus…
Don’t miss it! Tomorrow see the last Super Moon of 2022, The Sturgeon Moon
Tomorrow, the night sky will feature 2022’s last supermoon: the occasional coincidence of a full moon occurring when our natural satellite is near the closest point in…
Signals from Alien Civilizations can be detected from China’s “Sky Eye” telescope
Chinese scientists say the country’s giant “Sky Eye” telescope may have picked up signs of an alien civilization. Researchers with Beijing Normal University found “several cases of…
BREAKING: Simulations indicate that 68% of the universe might not truly exist.
According to the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (Lambda-CDM) model, which is the current accepted standard for how the universe began and evolved, the ordinary matter we encounter…
News: The moon’s surface has enough oxygen for 8 billion humans to live for 100,000 years.
Although the Moon does have an atmosphere, it is very thin and mostly made of hydrogen, neon, and argon. This is not a gaseous combination capable of…