simultaneously setting a speed record for a human-made spacecraft. At just 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) from the Sun, the probe traversed the solar atmosphere at a record speed of ...

La Nina, the natural cooling flip side of the better known and warmer El Nino climate phenomenon ... the National Oceanic and ...

The sun has been active, with an active combination of coronal mass ejections and coronal holes, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ... NASA describes the phenomenon as a “sun ...

“Chicagohenge” happens when the rising and setting ... a glimpse of the sun perfectly aligning with Chicago’s east-west streets during sunrise and sunset. This unique phenomenon occurs ...

Research published by scientists in England found a 2017 solar event compressed Jupiter's magnetic field, setting off aurora at the poles and heating in the upper atmosphere that spread across the ...

Auroras are an atmospheric phenomenon that occurs when electrically charged particles from the Sun hit gas atoms in a planet’s atmosphere. The energy released during this collision ultimately ...

The atmospheric layers’ properties also explain natural phenomena like the northern lights, or aurora borealis. These occur mostly in the thermosphere where the sun’s energetic electrons ...

Have you ever heard of—or even seen—red lightning? These are not animated characters but real atmospheric phenomena known as electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorms.