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Earth's Safe Zone Became Hot During Legendary Solar Storms
December 17, 2004 — A NASA-funded study found a region between radiation belts surrounding the Earth is not as benign as once thought. The region was considered a safe zone for satellites in "Middle Earth" ... > full story -
Did Our Sun Capture Alien Worlds? Close Encounter May Explain Some Objects Beyond Neptune
December 8, 2004 — Computer simulations show a close encounter with a passing star about 4 billion years ago may have given our solar system its abrupt edge and put small, alien worlds into distant orbits around our ... > full story -
Solar Disturbances Spike Aurora Activity Across The Globe
November 17, 2004 — A spot on the sun is bursting with large flares and tremendous coronal mass ejections, sending charged solar particles to Earth. The waves of particles descending on the planet are responsible for ... > full story -
The Sun Is More Active Now Than Over The Last 8000 Years
October 30, 2004 — The activity of the Sun over the last 11,400 years, i.e., back to the end of the last ice age on Earth, has now for the first time been reconstructed quantitatively by an international group of ... > full story -
What Genesis Solar Particles Can Tell Us
September 23, 2004 — The recent crash of NASA's Genesis space probe may have looked like bad news for scientists, but its cargo of particles captured from the sun should still yield useful information, according to ... > full story -
The Sun's X-File Under The Spotlight
September 6, 2004 — For years scientists have been baffled by the 'coronal heating problem': why it is that the light surface of the Sun (and all other solar-like stars) has a temperature of about 6000 degrees ... > full story -
Cluster Finds Giant Gas Vortices At The Edge Of Earth’s Magnetic Bubble
August 17, 2004 — ESA’s quartet of space-weather watchers, Cluster, has discovered vortices of ejected solar material high above the Earth. The superheated gases trapped in these structures are probably ... > full story -
Japan Deploys Solar Sail Film In Space
August 10, 2004 — Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science succeeded in deploying a big thin film for solar sail in space for the first time in the ... > full story -
How Strongly Does The Sun Influence The Global Climate?
August 3, 2004 — Studies at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research reveal: solar activity affects the climate but plays only a minor role in the current global ... > full story -
Spacecraft Fleet Tracks Blast Wave Through Solar System
July 9, 2004 — A fleet of spacecraft dispersed throughout the solar system gave the best picture to date of the effects of blast waves from solar storms as they propagate through the solar ... > full story
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