Solar storm could strike Earth Thursday: What you need to know
A solar storm is projection to hit Earth onFeb 15, 2018.(Courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science groups) A solar storm is projection to hit Earth early Thursday after the Sun released an effective solar flare — a burst of high-energy radiation –Sunday night. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Satellite caught a solar […]
60-million-year-old meteor strike uncovered on remote Isle of Skye
A thin piece of ejecta transferred on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, 60 million years earlier.(SimonDrake) A remote island in Scotland bears traces of out-of- this-world minerals from a 60- million-year-old meteorite effect. A group of geologists from Birkbeck, University of London was analyzing volcanic rocks on the remote Isleof Skye in Scotland when they […]