Every 11 years, the Sun's activity peaks in a solar maximum, unleashing powerful geomagnetic storms that heat and expand Earth's upper atmosphere. This extra heating increases atmospheric drag on satellites.…
NASA's Juno mission has discovered a world of cyclones at Jupiter's north Jovian pole, a region of cooler stratospheric haze. The cyclones drift to the pole through a process the…
Jupiter's weather just got even stranger. A new study published in the Journal Science Advances revealed that the gas giant's turbulent thunderstorms create massive, softball-sized hailstones called "mushballs," made of…
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Last week, as forecasters at the National Weather Service in the San Francisco Bay Area looked at a series of storms that would hammer the region, they predicted that some…
In 1859, when Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, the Earth experienced one of the most powerful solar storms in recorded history. Telegraph systems across Europe and North…
NASA's Juno spacecraft has delivered breathtaking images of Jupiter, highlighting the planet's swirling, multicoloured storms and unique moons. During Juno's 66th close flyby on October 23, the spacecraft approached the…
Magnetic vortices descending from Jupiter's ionosphere into its deep atmosphere are believed to trigger the formation of ultraviolet-absorbing anticyclonic storms, according to a study published on November 26 in Nature…
New research has indicated a strong connection between warm, sunny days on Mars and the occurrence of dust storms, with nearly 78 percent of storms preceded by increased solar heating,…