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March 7, 2016

Solar eclipse to darken skies over Asia, Pacific

Jay M. Pasachoff has taken off to a tiny island in Indonesia made famous by naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace while Mike Kentrianakis is a grabbing a coveted seat aboard an Alaska Airlines flight headed to Honolulu.

November 29, 2015

Daylight saving time: Set clocks ahead 1 hour

Spring is closer than you think, and here's a sure sign: Daylight saving time arrives this weekend.

November 2, 2015

The White House is preparing for catastrophic solar flares

If a giant solar flare hit the Earth, it could knock out the entire power grid, meaning no more new Justin Bieber singles, no more televised presidential debates, and no more Facebook photos of babies.

October 22, 2015

Town in Norway builds giant mirrors to avoid 5 months of darkness

Every year, from September to March, this town is cast in perpetual darkness.  Now, engineers will place three heliostatic mirrors – each measuring 538 square feet – on the faces of the mountains surrounding the town.

October 21, 2015

Meteor radar? Solar wind could help predict impacts

SAN FRANCISCO Space rocks barreling toward Earth could potentially be discovered by detecting changes in streams of plasma and particles known as solar wind, new research suggests

October 21, 2015

Scientists say worst of strong solar storm will likely miss Earth

A strong solar flare is blasting its way to Earth, but the worst of its power looks like it will barely skim above the planet and not cause many problems.

October 21, 2015

Solar winds tied to increased lightning strikes

Solar winds hitting Earth may trigger an increase in lightning, a new study suggests

October 21, 2015

NASA spots square-shaped 'hole' in the sun

A NASA spacecraft has made a surprising find on the surface of the sun: a square-shaped "hole" in the star's outer atmosphere.

October 21, 2015

Black hole gas guzzler may explain weird superbright X-rays

A black hole is eating a star faster than scientists had thought was possible, and it's unleashing unusually bright X-ray signals that may help scientists understand a group of weird, superbright objects in deep space.

October 21, 2015

The moon bites a chunk out of the sun

On July 26, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) noticed something peculiar about its normally uninterrupted view of the sun — a chunk was missing.