While the Orionid meteor shower in October is famous as being from the tail of the renowned Halley’s comet, Earth actually passes through this tail twice each year, and we are in t...
The pre-dawn hours of Earth Day this year bring the Lyrid meteor shower, during which fragments of Comet Thatcher (no relation to iconic Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher, who was laid t...
Plasma from the year’s strongest Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) yet has been hurtling toward Earth since the early morning hours of April 11, when it blasted out from the sun at 600 m...