The burgeoning space industry and the technologies society increasingly relies on – electric grids, aviation and telecommunications – are all vulnerable to the same threat: space weather.
Space weather[1] encompasses any variations in the space environment between the Sun and Earth. One common type of space weather event is called an ...
Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a scoopula. Then we drove 30 minutes in our rented truck from Yuma, Arizona, to the Algodones Dunes[1], a sandy field bordering California, Arizona and Mexico. The day was sunny, with a strong breeze. Turning off the...
Despite representing only 4% of the world’s population[1], the United States accounts for over half of science Nobel Prizes[2] awarded since 2000, hosts seven of The Times Higher Education Top 10 science universities[3], and incubates firms such as Alphabet (Google)[4], Meta[5] and Pfizer[6] that turn federally funded discoveries into...
Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system[1] caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system late on July 1, 2025[2]. The object’s potentially interstellar origins excited scientists across the globe, and the next morning, the European Space Agency confirmed[3] that this object, first named A11pl3Z and then...