4.6 billion years ago, Jupiter saved Earth during its formation
When the solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago, a gigantic cloud of dust and gas collapsed…
Astro Bob: Glorious auroras — region thrills to back-to-back solar blasts – Duluth News Tribune
Did you venture out past your bedtime to see the northern lights this week? They were incredible. We…
The Sun Sent A Coronal Mass Ejection Directly Toward The Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS In A First Of Its Kind Event » TwistedSifter
Shutterstock Interstellar objects entering the solar system are rare. So rare, in fact, that the one astronomers are…
Is there a rocket launch today? Watch SpaceX liftoff in California
SpaceX has been contracted to launch the Sentinel-6B satellite into orbit on a civil mission to observe sea…
Earth always has more moons than you think
Still, maybe-moons bring a certain immediacy to astronomy that some far-flung wonders can’t achieve. Kat Volk, a planetary…
The Physics of the Northern Lights
Neon lights are glass tubes containing neon or other gases. When an electric current is sent from one…
Are the northern lights visible Nov. 13? See time, viewing map, states
Northern Lights shine in the sky across much of the US Thanks to the strongest solar flare of…
For the first time, astronomers observed the first moments of a supernova shock wave
Many cosmic events occur in space and sometimes surprise astronomers. This is the case of these scientists who…
Auroras fill skies in North America as the geomagnetic storm arrives
Northern lights, auroras seen as far south as Texas and Florida The powerful geomagnetic storm hit Earth’s atmosphere…
Astronomers reveal what happened less than a second after the Big Bang
Cosmologists have traced the Big Bang’s earliest moments with great care, from the explosive inflation that set spacetime…
This Is What a Star Looks Like Just 26 Hours After It Explodes
Astronomers have captured a first-of-its-kind image of a massive dying star. Just 26 hours after the supernova SN…
Northern Lights *might* be visible Tuesday night as far south as North Carolina :: WRAL.com
If we’re going to see Arctic weather, you might as well throw in Arctic phenomena too, right? Cold…