(Natural News) Over the past week, thousands of cattle in Kansas have died over what local farmers and officials are calling weather-related incidents. According to mainstream media reports, the deaths are due to an extreme heat wave that is plaguing Kansas as well as the Greater Midwest in general, bringing temperatures that are in the upper […]

(Natural News) Astronomers are baffled by the rusty patches on the moon’s surface despite its lack of rust-inducing ingredients such as water and oxygen. In a paper published in the journal Science Advances, scientists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa made the discovery after analyzing data gathered from Chandrayaan-1’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper or M3, an instrument […]

(Natural News) American scientists suggest that the high latitudes of the moon’s surface may have been rusting for billions of years after detecting chemical signatures of hematite, a common product of the rusting of iron. In a study published in the journal Science Advances, the researchers said that the solar wind likely transported oxygen from Earth to the moon, […]

(Natural News) Earth is wrapped by a magnetic field powered by the churning of hot molten metals in the outer core. Thanks to this invisible field, the planet is protected from the solar wind and cosmic particles, permitting just enough radiation to tide humans by. This magnetic field, however, can flip and does so many times every million years […]

(Natural News) The Earth is protected from solar wind — a stream of charged particles from the sun — by its geomagnetic field. But this protective barrier is weak in certain areas, particularly south of the Atlantic Ocean. Called the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), this area makes it easier for solar wind and other cosmic rays […]

(Natural News) Swedish researchers found evidence that three solar storms engulfed the Earth during the past 3,000 years. The earlier instances of turbulent space weather dwarfed the ones recorded in history books. If one of those ancient storms took place in modern times, it would devastate electrical and electronic systems. Experts warned that communications, computer-based […]

(Natural News) The dynamic process of thermonuclear fusion within the heart of the sun is not just limited to generating light and heat. It also produces powerful sound waves that travel to the corona of the star and affect the powerful magnetic field of the celestial body. Researchers from Northumbria University made the discovery, which flew in the face of […]

(Natural News) Every time it gets hit by solar wind and other cosmic impulses, the magnetic field of Earth ripples until the waves arrive at the magnetic poles, which shunts the force back into space. Researchers liken this effect to a percussion drum being played. The theory about the Earth’s magnetopause – the outer border […]

(Natural News) Even during the calmest and sunniest day, Earth is caught in the middle of the ceaseless solar wind from the sun. If it weren’t for our world’s atmosphere and electromagnetic field, that cosmic storm would be ravaging the face of the planet, an article in Alpha Galileo stated. The sun is constantly putting […]

(Natural News) You might remember your Geology teacher droning about the molten iron core of the Earth generating a strong magnetic field. As it turns out, the currents of the oceans also contribute a field of their own that helps protect our planet – and us humans – from dangerous solar wind, an article from Space.com states. […]