Solar Storm

More than 2,600 years ago, strange red clouds over Mesopotamia drew the attention of soothsayers across the land. Their royal reports have now helped confine the date of a severe solar storm that washed over the planet. Based on readings of carbon isotopes t…

Scientists report that they may have found the earliest written record of a solar storm in ancient Assyrian tablets. Recent analyses have found evidence of an extreme solar storm that left energetic particles in tree rings and ice cores across the world some…

Scientists report that they may have found the earliest written record of a solar storm in ancient Assyrian tablets. Recent analyses have found evidence of an extreme solar storm that left energetic particles in tree rings and ice cores across the world some…

Scientists at the University of Tsukuba study ancient cuneiform records for evidence of unusual solar activity 2,700 years ago, and identify three possible magnetic storms by matching the dates with tree-ring radioisotope data Tsukuba, JapanA research team l…

Solar storms, which are capable of devastating a technologically-dependent civilization, are more common than initially thought, according to a recent study. Known scientifically as coronal mass ejections, solar storms occur when the Sun hurls a massive blob…

Authored by Irina Slave via OilPrice.com, Climate has inarguably become a hot topic of discussion in developed economies over the last decade, and it is getting hotter by the day as study after study warn we are close to doomed if we dont change our ways urg…

Climate has inarguably become a hot topic of discussion in developed economies over the last decade, and it is getting hotter by the day as study after study warn we are close to doomed if we don’t change our ways urgently. Yet climate on Earth is not the onl…

After years of delays,  NASA finally launched its new research satellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at approximately 10:00PM on October 10th.  Named ICON, or Ionospheric Connection Explorer, the satellite will collect data to help scientists study the sti…

Let’s consider the following scenario – the Earth is at risk for a disruptive event. This event has, conservatively, about a 0.2% chance of happening on any given year. But that is the most conservative estimate, at the high end it could be more like 12% over…

A satellite that will monitor the sun for signs of impending and dangerous space weather before such batters the Earth is being developed by aerospace firm Airbus. The Lagrange satellite will follow the Earth along its orbit, maintaining a view on the side o…