Over Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, a never-ending lightning storm lights up the sky. Warm, humid air from the lake collides with cold mountain winds, creating the perfect conditions for constant ...

Determining the culprit One of the ways to disturb electrons in the inner radiation belt and kick them into Earth’s atmosphere actually begins in the atmosphere itself. Lightning, the large ...

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The European Space Agency and other space bodies are monitoring an asteroid with a 1.3% chance to hit Earth in 2032. File Photo NASA/UPI ...

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Jan. 31 (UPI) --The European Space Agency is monitoring an asteroid with a slim chance to strike Earth in 2032. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was found on Dec. 27 by a telescope in Chile but has since caught ...

While we can’t say for sure where YR4 would strike our planet, we can geographically constrain where Earth would possibly take the hit based on the projected impact date of December 22 ...

Jan. 31 (UPI) --The European Space Agency is monitoring an asteroid with a slim chance to strike Earth in 2032. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was found on Dec. 27 by a telescope in Chile but has since caught the ...