The activities taking place in the Sun are putting the Earth in trouble every day! Solar maximum is the period in which the Sun has become extremely ‘furious’. Because of this, solar storms are emerging from the Sun. Coronal mass ejection (CME) events are occurring and solar flares are reaching Earth. This trend will continue…
Earth has recently encountered an asteroid the size of a river bridge. These rocky calamities coming close to the earth sometimes worry scientists. If the asteroid changes its direction and its focus is towards the Earth, then it is a troublesome thing. There can be major devastation if an asteroid hits the Earth. Today i.e….
When scientists can find evidence of the presence of water in space, then what is salt? Researchers have discovered salt (sodium chloride) crystals in a sample of an asteroid brought to Earth by a Japanese spacecraft. Japan’s Hayabusa mission collected a sample from asteroid Itokawa in 2005. The sample was brought to Earth in the…
Elon Musk’s company SpaceX can once again launch the world’s most powerful rocket ‘Starship’. This rocket was flown for the first time on April 20, but SpaceX was not successful. The rocket exploded minutes after taking off from a launchpad in South Texas, USA. The aim of SpaceX was to fly the upper stage of…
How many hours are there in a day? You will say 24. The answer is absolutely correct, but a day on Earth was sometimes of 19 hours. That period is called the ‘Boring Billion’. Two geophysicists have found in their study that the Earth had to face a decrease in rotation due to the decrease…
Pakistan’s economic plight is well known. There would hardly be any country in the world which takes another loan to repay one loan. The Pakistan where there is a stampede to get flour is dreaming of the moon. The head of Pakistan’s space agency feels that it can play an important role in the China-led…
Due to the rampant pumping of groundwater by humans, our Earth has tilted towards the east by about 80 cm at a speed of 4.36 cm/year in less than two decades.
The kind of movement that has taken place in the Sun in the last 2 days has left the scientists stunned! It started with a solar flare on June 20. The flare from a sunspot on the Sun was one of the largest explosions this year, causing a temporary radio blackout in the US and…
Global warming and the warming earth have worried scientists, experts and governments all over the world. The snow on the mountains is melting rapidly. Seasonal cycles are changing. The agriculture sector has been affected due to excessive rainfall at some places and drought at other places. The average sea level is rising, which has become…
Asteroid: The first name among the rocks coming near the Earth today is ‘Asteroid (2023 MH4)’. This 42-foot asteroid could be as big as a bus.