Solar Radiation Greatly Affects Small Moon Iron Nanoparticles; Here Is What It Means

Medicine & Technology Aug 23, 2021

Asteroids and solar radiation both tear down lunar rocks and soil, resulting in iron nanoparticles that may be detected by sensors aboard orbiting spacecraft.

Earth's Magnetic Field Have A 200 Million-Year-Long Cycle As Found From Rock Samples in Ancient Lava

Aug 22, 2021

Scientists have previously noticed that the Earth's magnetic field seems to decay periodically, but the reason was unidentified before. The new study confirms that it indeed weakens every 200 million years.

Cloud Simulations Reveal That Solar Geoengineering is Not a Long-Term Solution to Global Warming

Nov 18, 2020

Solar geoengineering, or reflecting the Sun's radiation back to space, is one of many proposed solutions to global warming. However, cloud simulations revealed that in the long-term, there may be devastating consequences.

Interesting Particles Look Like Snow In Space

Nov 08, 2015

NASA scientists thought that flurry images that look like snow are actually fast moving energetic particles, which NASA calls solar radiation storm that hit an instrument on Solar and Heliospheric Observatory on Oct. 29, 2015.

X-Class Solar Flare Headed for Earth: Are We Safe?

Oct 27, 2014

The most active sunspot in the last two decades is currently churning out solar flare after solar flare and they are all aimed directly at Earth.