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NASA Studies How Airborne Particles Affect Climate Change
March 17, 2007 — A recent NASA study links natural and human-made aerosol particles to how much Earth warms or cools. Different types of aerosol particles can influence visible light and other kinds of radiation, ... > full story -
Here's Comes The Sun: International Heliophysical Year To Examine Sun-Earth Relationship
February 21, 2007 — The International Heliophysical Year has officially begun (Feb. 19, 2007) -- two years dedicated to a better understanding of the how the Sun affects the Earth and the other planets in the Solar ... > full story -
Sophisticated Space Weather Tool Under Development
February 4, 2007 — If a satellite encounters high-energy particles or other "space weather" phenomena before ground controllers can take action, on-board electronics could be disrupted, scientific instruments damaged ... > full story -
Peering Into The Poles' Majestic Light Shows: Probes To Solve Mystery Of Auroral Substorms
January 17, 2007 — Substorms in the Earth's magnetosphere turn the shimmering Northern and Southern lights into a dancing light show. A new NASA mission called THEMIS, designed and built by UC Berkeley scientists and ... > full story -
Space Researchers To Solve Aurora Mystery
January 10, 2007 — On Feb. 15, NASA will launch the largest number of scientific satellites ever sent into orbit aboard a single rocket. A handful of Alberta scientists will be at Kennedy Space Center watching and ... > full story -
Solar Flare Keeps Space Agencies Busy
December 16, 2006 — An energetic storm on the Sun has forced ESA mission controllers to react to anomalies or take action to avoid damage to spacecraft. Several missions, including Integral, Cluster and Envisat, felt ... > full story -
Solar Physicist Says Weak Sun Produces Record Solar Outburst
December 16, 2006 — A solar outburst, which can play havoc with global positioning systems and cell phone reception, bombarded Earth, Dec. 6, 2006, with a record amount of radio noise, said solar physicist Dale ... > full story -
Researchers Identify Driver For Near-Earth Space Weather
December 12, 2006 — New findings indicate that the aurora and other near-Earth space weather are driven by the rate at which the Earth's and sun's magnetic fields connect, or merge, and not by the solar wind's electric ... > full story -
New Instrumentation Helps Scientists Better Predict Space Weather
December 12, 2006 — New instrumentation and observing techniques, being developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, are helping scientists better understand and predict space ... > full story -
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Predicted To Reduce Density Of Earth's Outermost Atmosphere By 2017
December 11, 2006 — Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels will produce a 3 percent reduction in the density of Earth's outermost atmosphere by 2017, according to a team of scientists from the ... > full story
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