Humans Could Orbit Earth’s Poles for the First Time Today. What Took So Long?
The private Fram2 mission is launching later today, sending a crew of amateurs to an unprecedented polar orbit—a frontier ...
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Why Do Pilots Say ‘Winds Aloft Are True’ When Forecasts Are Often Inaccurate?
The magnetic north pole is not in the same location as the geographic north pole, which is located 1,300 miles away.
Webb telescope captures weird auroras on Neptune for the first time
Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...
The Daily Galaxy on MSN1d
NASA Is Tracking a Massive Anomaly in Earth’s Magnetic Field — And It’s Getting Worse
A vast and evolving anomaly in Earth’s magnetic field, situated above South America and the southern Atlantic Ocean, ...
CBC.ca20d
WATCH — The science behind the northern lights
Like bar magnets, Earth has a north magnetic pole and a south magnetic pole. The lines of Earth’s magnetic field point from one pole to the other. When the solar wind approaches Earth ...
The State Journal3d
Bluegrass Skies: How sunspots affect magnetic migration
NASA proclaimed 2024 to be “Heliophysics Big Year,” and with good reason. Heliophysics is the study of the sun, and 2024 gave ...
Live Science on MSN4d
James Webb telescope captures auroras on Neptune for first time ever
The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully detected auroras on Neptune for the first time ever, finishing a job that ...
Mysterious Radio Pulses Hint at a Strange Cosmic Object That Shouldn’t Exist
A cosmic enigma, ASKAP J1839-0756, a slow-spinning neutron star discovered using the ASKAP radio telescope, is challenging ...
Map reveals exact spots to catch Northern Lights TONIGHT as Met Office issues ‘90% chance’ alert – will you spot them?
THE NORTHERN Lights are set to dazzle parts of the UK tonight, with the Met Office issuing a 90 per cent chance alert. Northern regions are expected to be able to witness the phenomenon late on ...
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Thursday's Vernal Equinox ushers in Spring across Canada for 2025
The exact timing of the equinoxes changes from year to year, but in 2025, the northern hemisphere's Vernal (Spring) Equinox ...
Hindustan Times24d
Private US spaceship lands near Moon's south pole in uncertain condition
For the company's second attempt, it sent the 15.6-foot tall hexagonal Athena lander to the vast Mons Mouton plateau closer to the lunar south pole than ... equipped with magnetic wheels to ...