Lightning, when coupled with solar flares, can knock electrons flying above the Earth out of place. AP Photo/David Zalubowski There are trillions of charged particles – protons and electrons, the ...

Lightning strikes across Earth could make ultrahot "killer electrons" rain down around our planet, according to new research from scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder. Due to this result, ...

In addition to the unique weather occurring on each of our neighboring planets, there's also space weather—disturbances driven by various eruptions on the Sun, that occur within the vastness of ...

Space weather is a term used to describe the conditions found in the region of space surrounding the Earth and beyond that can affect our planet in a number of ways. While the Earth's magnetic field, ...

Since December 2019, the sun has been moving into a busier part of its cycle, when increasingly intense pulses of energy can shoot out in all directions. Some of these large bursts of charged ...

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Imagine being told a storm is heading your way, but you won't know how bad the winds are or whether they'll knock out power until just minutes before it hits. That's the challenge scientists face when ...

Nvidia announced the Nvidia Omniverse Blueprint for Earth-2 weather analytics to accelerate the development of more accurate weather forecasting. Climate-related weather events have had a $2 trillion ...

Weather forecasting is one of the most advanced sciences on Earth. But it’s also one of the most complex and humbling. Here's ...

Google Earth finally adds a weather layer. Now you can obsessively check the weather in foreign cities again and again. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote ...