The most powerful solar storm in twenty years has just occurred, generated from a large cluster of sunspots that produced five X-class solar flares and three coronal mass ejections that resulted in a weekend-long geomagnetic storm strong enough to cast aurorae as far south as Hawaii, and in the southernread more
The world’s largest carbon dioxide capture facility has begun operations in Hellisheiði, Iceland, a pivotal milestone in the development of what is known as direct air capture (DAC), technologies that are aimed at scrubbing the atmosphere of excess carbon dioxide. Although a drastic reduction in the amount of human-based CO2read more
A new, more expansive model of the solar system has yielded further evidence of the existence of the elusive Planet Nine, with the new, more detailed simulation strengthening the case for the presence of a large celestial body lurking the depths of space past the orbit of Neptune. In 2016,read more
A proposal to amend the current five-level scale used to measure the severity of hurricanes to include a sixth category for the most powerful of tropical cyclones has been put forward, as a method of improving the classification—and thus the communication of—the destructiveness of a given storm, especially as weread more