Simulation in preparation for Sentinel-1D shows that satellites would be destroyed when faced with a super solar storm.

Space weather can be a silent threat, its effects often invisible until disaster strikes. Yet, as humanity grows more dependent on satellites for everything from communication to navigation, ...

An asteroid discovered late last year is continuing to stir public interest as its odds of striking planet Earth less than eight years from now continue to increase. Two weeks ago, when Ars first ...

The chances that an asteroid, known as 2024 YR4, could hit Earth in seven years have fluctuated recently, but experts aren’t preparing for the worst yet. At the end of 2024, a NASA-funded telescope in ...

After weeks of reduced activity, the sun erupted with three powerful flares on a single day. That could send solar flares toward Earth, impacting electronics and making it possible to view the ...

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With the 2024 YR4 asteroid scheduled to near Earth by 2032, several methods of averting a collision have already been proposed. The asteroid, being monitored by multiple space agencies across the ...

What happens if an asteroid the size of a 15-story building crashes into the Moon in 2032? While the chances of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon in seven years are slim – there ...

In a remote desert, scientists have discovered one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It dates to well over a billion years ago, to a time when our planet was inhabited solely by single-celled life.

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