Last week, a huge solar flare sent a wave of energetic particles from the sun surging out through space. Over the weekend, the wave reached Earth, and people around the world enjoyed the sight of ...

This isn’t some sort of alien test card beamed from Venus, but a rainbow-like optical phenomenon known as a glory in the atmosphere of our nearest planetary neighbour. In fact, it’s the first time a ...

My commentaries in Forbes tend to focus on weather, climate, and broadly related science. I am a scientist and educator not a journalist so my perspectives are often motivated by certain angles that I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An animation of the four PUNCH spacecraft orbiting the Earth. (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab) The ...