Solar Storm

Indias renewable energy sector has made remarkable progress, particularly after Prime Minister Modi launched a big push on renewables during his first term. But its fortunes have fluctuated since prices began tumbling to a point where renewable-energy firms f…

A coronal hole is about to be pointed directly at Earth on the same day it is bathed in the mysterious non-light of a black supermoon. Coincidence or cosmic disaster in the making? The first of the streams is expected to arrive on Aug. 1st, followed by two m…

Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, An absolutely massive hole has formed in the upper atmosphere of the Sun, and our planet will align with that hole later this week.  Once the alignment happens, Earth will be bombarded by a s…

Italian politics got quite strange last weekend. I was first aware of this on Saturday, when my Twitter started twanging to the sound of a far right politician rowing back on some hatred. That is a rare event, and cause for celebration, even if the proximate …

An absolutely massive hole has formed in the upper atmosphere of the Sun, and our planet will align with that hole later this week.  Once the alignment happens, Earth will be bombarded by a solar storm, and nobody is quite sure yet how bad it will be.  If the…

A Van Allen radiation belt is a zone of energeticcharged particles, most of which originate from the solar wind, that are captured by and held around a planet by that planet's magnetic field. Earth has two such belts and sometimes others may be temporarily cr…

Many readers may find the plots of some SF novels deeply implausible. Who, they ask, would send astronauts off on an interstellar mission before verifying the Go Very Fast Now drive was faster than light and not merely as fast as light? Who would be silly eno…

When the dark acts of the trolls became particularly harmful the elves felt they had no choice but to get together and fight back, and the fierce battle which then began has since continued with no sign of ending.   Industrial scale spreading of disinformati…

In 2000, the Broward County Public Schools in Florida received an alarming report. Like many affluent school districts at the time, Broward was considering laptops and wireless networks for its classrooms and 250,000 students. Were there any health risks to …

Currently, the Deep Space Observatory (DSCOVR) has been placed in a "safehold" position as engineers are working to fix an issue in the system. During this time, it won't be able to send any measurement data which helps us to monitor trends or events in space…