They can knock out satellites, disrupt electronic devices, and even cause massive power outages. In extreme cases, a powerful ...

A fierce solar storm in May 2024 did more than disrupt GPS — it created two new radiation belts. A revived CubeSat captured ...

Scientists have an expansive network of space- and ground-based observatories, such as the Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter, the Solar Dynamics Observatory and others, available to monitor the ...

Objects that could strike the planet will be spotted more regularly as new asteroid-hunting telescopes come online.

Astronomers will use the Webb telescope to closely monitor the size and trajectory of an asteroid that has a slim chance of ...

But they did not know how ... Hurricanes Linked to Higher Death Rates for 15 Years After Storms Pass Oct. 2, 2024 — U.S. tropical cyclones, including hurricanes, indirectly cause thousands of ...

offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar system. The ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.28% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, NASA says — though at one point earlier its estimate reached as high as 3.1%.

There is now a roughly 1 in 32 chance of an asteroid that could be up to 300ft (100m) wide hitting Earth in 2032, following an upgraded by NASA. According to NASA’s Centre for Near Earth Object ...

Telescopes will refine the asteroid's orbit around the solar ... Earth remains in that estimated hazard area — like a catcher's mitt awaiting a high-speed baseball — its relative odds of ...

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