August 26, 2025: (Spaceweather.com) The most intriguing mystery in astronomy today is the nature of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. Most astronomers believe it is a comet. However, Avi Loeb of Harvard University famously makes the case that it might be something else–like alien tech. Into this debate comes new data from the James Webb Space Telescope. … Continue reading Is 3I/ATLAS Really a Comet?| Spaceweather.com
Aug. 15, 2025 (Spaceweather.com): Solar activity might be doing more than sparking auroras. A new study in Communications Medicine suggests it could be nudging your blood pressure, too. Researchers…| Spaceweather.com
1 post published by Dr.Tony Phillips during August 2025| Spaceweather.com
Aug. 1, 2025 (Spaceweather.com): Hurricane season just got worse. Chinese researchers have discovered a new kind of storm at the edge of space. They call it a “space hurricane.” The fir…| Spaceweather.com
3 posts published by Dr.Tony Phillips during July 2025| Spaceweather.com
July 21, 2025 (Spaceweather.com): Carl Sagan famously said, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.” But he never said we couldn’t discuss extraordinary claims without …| Spaceweather.com
July 17, 2025 (Spaceweather.com): Astronomers come in all shapes and sizes–even invertebrates. A new study published in Nature reveals that Australian moths can see and decipher the night sky. They pay particular attention to the Milky Way and seem capable of navigating using the Carina nebula as a visual landmark. Above: A male Bogong moth … Continue reading Moths Follow the Milky Way| Spaceweather.com
July 14, 2025: You know a solar flare is strong when even the Voyager spacecraft feel it. Twenty-five years ago, on July 14, 2000, the sun unleashed one of the most powerful solar storms of the Space Age—an event so intense, its shockwaves rippled all the way to the edge of the solar system. Voyager … Continue reading The Bastille Day Event, 25 Years Later| Spaceweather.com
July 17, 2025 (Spaceweather.com): Astronomers come in all shapes and sizes–even invertebrates. A new study published in Nature reveals that Australian moths can see and decipher the night sky. They pay particular attention to the Milky Way and seem capable of navigating using the Carina nebula as a visual landmark.| Spaceweather.com
Sept. 1, 2020: On Sept. 1st, 1859, the most ferocious solar storm in recorded history engulfed our planet. “The Carrington Event,” named after British scientist Richard Carrington who w…| Spaceweather.com
June 4, 2025 (Spaceweather.com) — Solar storms are supposed to make radiation go up, right? A severe solar storm on June 1st did just the opposite. The Oulu Cosmic Ray Station in Finland regi…| Spaceweather.com
May 21, 2025: (Spaceweather.com) More than 14 thousand years ago, there was a solar storm so big, trees still remember it. Dwarfing modern solar storms, the event would devastate technology if it happened again today. Spoiler alert: It could. Above: Subfossil trees along the banks of the Drouzet river in France [ref] The record-strong storm … Continue reading Trees Remember an Ice Age Solar Storm| Spaceweather.com
May 12, 2025 (Spaceweather.com): Solar eclipses aren’t just for homo sapiens. Researchers have long known that birds, insects, and many mammals pay attention when the Moon slides in front of …| Spaceweather.com
April 22, 2025: (Spaceweather.com) Planting season is a hectic time for farmers. For many, it means working through the night using GPS-guided tractors to plant thousands of acres in a short period…| Spaceweather.com
Jan. 30, 2025: (Spaceweather.com) How bad can a solar storm be? Just ask a tree. Unlike human records, which go back hundreds of years, trees can remember solar storms for millennia. Nagoya Univers…| Spaceweather.com
TCI is the “Thermosphere Climate Index”, a number NASA publishes every day to keep track of the temperature at the top of Earth’s atmosphere–a layer of gas researchers call “the t…| Spaceweather.com
