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Why This Quiet Patch of Grass in Canada Is Rewriting the Columbus StoryA significant Norse settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland has been precisely dated to AD 1021. This discovery, confirmed by radi...
Uranus Spins Sideways, the Stranger Story Is What That Does to the Space Around ItUranus spins on its side, creating a wild magnetosphere. Unlike Earth's stable bubble, Uranus's magnetic field is lopsided and constantly s...
A Cosmic Storm Locked the Exact Year Vikings Reached North AmericaA powerful solar storm in 992-993 CE left a chemical trace in trees, allowing scientists to pinpoint the year Norse explorers were active i...
Rocket launch today: SpaceX Falcon 9 launches 3 spacecraft for NASA and NOAARocket launch today: SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched three spacecraft from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The mission includes...
Massive dent in Earth's magnetic field, will this anomaly hurt humans and all? NASA on high alert overNASA is closely monitoring the South Atlantic Anomaly, which is a growing dent in the Earth's magnetic field that allows charged solar part...
What is "extreme solar particle event"? How may it damage Earth's ozone layer?Scientists warn that extreme solar particle events, occurring every thousand years, could severely damage Earth's ozone layer, increasing U...
Chandrayaan-2 detects solar proton events: ISROWhen the sun is active, spectacular eruptions called solar flares occur that sometimes also spew out energetic particles (called solar prot...
- How NASA plans to protect Mars crew from space radiation
Washington, Oct 14 (IANS) While it's true that space radiation is one of the biggest challenges for a human journey to Mars, NASA said it i...
- Solar activity doubles radiation levels on Mars
New York, Oct 1 (IANS) A solar event has sparked a global aurora at the Martian surface and caused the radiation level to double than highe...
- Low-mass supernova led to birth of solar system: Study
New York, Nov 29 (IANS) A low-mass supernova -- a star exploding at the end of its life-cycle -- triggered the formation of our solar syste...
Dust grains on Earth may be products of stellar explosionsMicroscopic dust particles found in meteoritic material on Earth were likely formed in stellar explosions that occurred long before the cre...
Ligo India: Big science project with big benefitsThe project of Ligo India will not just help a new generation of physicists, but it will also bring precision engineering to the Indian ind...
LIGO India could be operational by 2023: US scientistScientists have made trips to India to work with Indian colleagues, especially with three nodal institutes that would have primary responsi...
What would happen if a massive solar storm hit the earth?There's an even bigger worry than wind and rain: space weather. If a massive solar storm hit us, our technology would be wiped out.
What would happen if a massive solar storm A hit the Earth?We all know that major storms can wreak havoc, flooding cities and decimating infrastructure. But there's an even bigger worry than wind an...