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Solar Flares Postpone SETI@home Re-Observation
March 24, 2003 — After one day of re-observing promising radio sources at the Arecibo radio telescope, the SETI@home project has been bumped from the telescope's observing schedule until next Monday, March 24, so ... > full story -
NASA Study Finds Increasing Solar Trend That Can Change Climate
March 21, 2003 — Since the late 1970s, the amount of solar radiation the sun emits, during times of quiet sunspot activity, has increased by nearly .05 percent per decade, according to a NASA funded study. "This ... > full story -
Violent Truth Behind Sun's 'Gentle Giants' Uncovered
February 11, 2003 — Solar physicists at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London (MSSL-UCL) have discovered new clues to understanding explosions on the ... > full story -
NASA Spacecraft Set To Catch Some Rays
January 24, 2003 — A new NASA satellite is ready to leave the sandy coast of Florida and head to space to catch some rays. The SORCE (Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment) mission will study our sun's influence ... > full story -
New Theory Unravels Magnetic Instability
December 11, 2002 — Reconnection, the merging of magnetic field lines of opposite polarity near the surface of the sun, Earth and some black holes, is believed to be the root cause of many spectacular astronomical ... > full story -
NASA Satellite Flies High To Monitor Sun's Influence On Ozone
November 18, 2002 — In October, the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) completed the first measurement of the solar ultraviolet radiation spectrum over the duration of an 11 year solar cycle, a period marked by ... > full story -
Some Cosmic Rays Originate Within Solar System, Researchers Find
October 31, 2002 — Researchers have found that a portion of anomalous cosmic rays -- charged particles accelerated to enormous energies by the solar wind -- results from interactions with dust grains from a belt of ... > full story -
Space Weather Forecasting Shifts Into High Gear
September 25, 2002 — Over the next decade, forecasts of spectacular northern lights and other solar-generated events will become as commonplace as today's thunderstorm predictions, say scientists meeting this week in ... > full story -
Comets Break Up Far And Near
September 9, 2002 — Some comets may break apart over and over again in the farthest reaches of the solar system, challenging a theory that comets break up only occasionally and not too far from the Sun, says a ... > full story -
NASA Selects Stanford Team To Design And Direct Major Solar Experiment For 2007 Launch
August 26, 2002 — NASA has selected a team of astrophysicists at Stanford University to design and oversee the primary experiment aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) – a new research satellite scheduled ... > full story
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