(Natural News) The past few weeks have been a pretty busy time for the sun. February has been a heavy month of solar activity so far, with the solar system’s star discharging two massive explosions from its far side (facing away from Earth). A brilliant coronal mass ejection (CME) that extended millions of miles into space […]

(Natural News) The Earth is protected from solar wind — a stream of charged particles from the sun — by its geomagnetic field. But this protective barrier is weak in certain areas, particularly south of the Atlantic Ocean. Called the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), this area makes it easier for solar wind and other cosmic rays […]