![An artist's conception of HD 209458 b, an exoplanet whose atmosphere is being torn off at more than 35,000 km/hour by the radiation of its close-by parent star. This hot Jupiter was the first alien world discovered via the transit method, and the first planet to have its atmosphere studied. [NASA/European Space Agency/Alfred Vidal-Madjar (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS)]](https://cdn.zmescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/247271_web-1-350x250.webp)
Stellar flares can strip away the atmosphere of planets, make them less habitable
A new study highlights the importance of solar flares and space weather in reducing the habitability of exoplanets.
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X-Rays could sterilise alien planets that would be otherwise habitable
It's a small chance, but having a small chance of something wiping out all of life on a planet still ...
This brave spacecraft will soon fly through the sun’s atmosphere
A modern-day mechanical Icarus.
How Spanish scientists described a solar flare in 1886
He was one of the pioneers of studying solar activity.
Monster solar flare could wipe out our electric infrastructure within next 100 years
It happened before and it could happen again rather soon. Damage to power grids, satellites, and communications could amount to ...
How a 1967 Solar Flare nearly plunged the World into Nuclear Holocaust
All because the sun had a bad day and 'farted'.
The sun goes through quasi-seasonal changes, a find that could help protect power grids back on Earth
Just like our own planet, the sun goes through seasonal changes in its activity, waxing and waning over the course ...
Scientists find the sound of stars
A chance discovery has provided experimental evidence that stars may generate sound. While he was examining the interaction of an ...
Sun’s magnetic ‘heartbeat’ is discovered
A magnetic solar 'heartbeat' beats deep down in the Sun's interior, generating energy that leads to solar flares and sunspots. ...
Earth was hit by a massive gamma-ray burst in the 8th century
The most powerful explosion in the Universe - a gamma-ray burst- might have hit Earth during the middle ages. Luckily ...
Doomsday part 4: Solar flares
A solar flare will breach Earth's magnetic field that typically shelters our planet's surface from such hazards. The ensuing onslaught ...
Astronomers try to predict huge solar blasts by studying coronal cavities
From time to time, the sun projects billion-ton clouds of charged particles from its scorching surface, surrounded by a solar ...
Powerful solar flare headed our way set to spark beautiful Northern Lights
False-color image of the recently erupted, powerful X-class solar flare, whose corronal mass ejection is expected to reach Earth's magnetic ...
Superflares 10,000 times more powerful than those in our solar system, observed on sun-like stars
Some stars, most often during their early life, exhibit an intense and energetic behavior, much greater than that of our ...
Huge sunspots the size of the Earth warns of potential massive solar storms
Astronomers have observed a huge sunspot group on the surface of the sun, sized at more than 60,000 miles across, which ...
Solar flare reaches us, but wait – there’s more [shorties]
The solar flare is here! Today, Thursday, at about 5:45 a.m. Eastern time, the geomagnetic storm that arose from the ...
Sun fires off two huge solar flares that could impact Earth
The largest solar flare since 2006 occurred Tuesday, when a massive amount of plasma was ejected at a speed of ...
Solar flare heading our way – to hit the Earth on Saturday
The sun recently shout out an M3.2-class solar flare in our direction, which scientists expect to hit the Earth this ...
Good news! Killer solar flares won’t destroy Earth
In a statement wrote by NASA scientists (and I can only imagine how they felt while writing it) it is ...
Spectacular Aurora Borealis light show in North America [PHOTOS]
Stunning Northern Lights ... or more like North-ish Lights in Marquette, Michigan Northern Lights. (c) Shawn Malone The northern hemisphere ...
Gamma-ray bursts might cause mass extinction on Earth
Most of us tend to believe the Earth is a safe heaven, with little regard to outerwordly consequences. The truth ...
Solar flare radiation expected to hit today – expect a Northern Lights spectacle
On Monday the sun fired up an X class solar flare, the most powerful of its kind, the effects of ...
Giant solar blast headed directly for Earth – perfect for photographers
First of all, there's no need to panic; solar blasts can cause geomagnetic perturbances, but they pose no direct danger ...