atmosphere Archives

Earth’s magnetic north pole is moving too fast for experts to keep up

April 29, 2020

In the Hollywood blockbuster “The Core,” the planet’s core suddenly stops rotating, causing Earth’s magnetic field to collapse. Then bursts of deadly microwaves cook the Colosseum and melt the Golden Gate Bridge.

While “nearly everything …

It rains on the sun – this is how

April 29, 2020

By NASA

For five months in mid 2017, Emily Mason did the same thing every day. Arriving to her office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, she sat at her desk, opened up her computer, and stared at images of the Sun — all day, ev…

India’s anti-missile launch just worsened problematic space-trash

April 29, 2020

By Business Insider

On March 27, 2019, India launched a missile toward space, struck an Earth-orbiting satellite, and destroyed the sp…