It can even have beneficial effects, such as better protection against cosmic rays, thanks to the modification of the heliospheric current sheet (see below). Scientists are closely monitoring this ...

Over the weekend, comet C/2024 (ATLAS) made a grand appearance in images from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). The comet will continue to blaze through SOHO’s view for the ...

The Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager instrument, or LEXI, is one of 10 NASA payloads aboard Blue Ghost, which is set to launch at 1:11 a.m. EST (0611 GMT) on Wednesday (Jan. 15 ...

An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

As the sun's magnetic field shifts, the "current sheet" — a sprawling surface that radiates billions of miles outward from the sun's equator — becomes very wavy, providing a better barrier ...

When solar activity reaches a peak during a given solar cycle, this is known as solar maximum. Current estimates predict solar maximum will occur between late 2024 and early 2026. However, there is ...

The company says that improvements to how the model works with its Google Sheets spreadsheets application will help take the pain out a critical business function that many find “time consuming ...

In mid-January 2025, the ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) watched comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) pass about 8 million miles from the Sun. In this image sequence, ...

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