Tagged: space weather

Scientists have long questioned why the bursts of hot gas from the sun do not cool down as fast as expected, and have now used a supercomputer to find out. The team will compare the simulations with ‘real’ data from the Solar Orbiter mission, with...

  A team of space weather experts from Northumbria University has been awarded more than £400,000 to explore how to better predict the conditions in near-Earth space. The environment in the radiation belts 60,000km above the Earth can be highly dangerous—both to human life and...

The most common type of star in the universe may savage planets near them, potentially stripping away their atmospheres and dooming chances for life as we know it, scientists say. Red dwarf stars, also known as M dwarf stars, are up to 50 times dimmer...

Solar energy and cosmic radiation have electrical influences over a multitude of human activities including human health. Mainstream science has begun to accept these effects, and to investigate the topic in a serious way, but the science itself is by no means ‘new’. At the...