WHAT IF: A Solar Storm Destroyed the Internet?
The sun is always showering Earth with a mist of magnetized particles known as solar wind. For the most part, our planet’s magnetic shield blocks this electric wind from doing … Read more
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What If the Sun Were Destroyed?
Every Wednesday, we’re asking a what-if question – how would our world be different if something were changed? Today’s question is from QSFer Scott: What if the sun were destroyed? … Read more
What Happens After the Sun Dies?
Our sun’s death is a long way off — about 4.5 billion years, give or take — but someday it’s going to happen, and what then for our solar system? … Read more
If the Moon is Made of Cheese, the Sun is Made of Popcorn
Need a little more sun in your life? German scientists have just finished upgrading a solar telescope called GREGOR at the Teide Observatory in the Canary Islands, and the result … Read more
SPACE: Does the Sun Have a Long-Lost Twin?
The most distant region of our solar system, a sphere of dark, icy debris out beyond Neptune, is too crowded. All that stuff out there, beyond the reach of the … Read more
Water Bears On the Sun!
Regular followers of the QSF blog know we have a soft spot for tardigrades – also called “water bears,” and we live for space news. So we HAD to share … Read more
SPACE: The Sun is Belching at Us
The sun’s corona constantly breathes wispy strings of hot, charged particles into space — a phenomenon we call the solar wind. Every now and then, however, those breaths become full-blown … Read more
SPACE: The Earth is Basically a Mini Sun
Our sun is a lifeless, fiery ball of gas fueled by a nuclear inferno. Earth, meanwhile, is a rocky, layered planet covered by water and teeming with life. Nevertheless, the … Read more
SCIENCE: A Giant Solar Storm Could Knock Out Earth’s Electic Grid
A gigantic solar storm hit Earth about 2,600 years ago, one about 10 times stronger than any solar storm recorded in the modern day, a new study finds. These findings … Read more
SPACE: Scientists Search for Our Mother Sun
Image Credit: NAOJ Billions of years ago, a huge star blasted open and spewed its guts into space. At that energetic moment, the so-called core-collapse supernova formed a debris cloud … Read more