Weather: At 25 degrees today the thermometer – Where rain is expected
The EMY forecast for the weekend
NASA can’t talk to its Mars robots for two weeks because the sun is in the way
The space agency is waiting out a phenomenon known as a solar conjunction, in which Earth and Mars are on opposite sides of the sun
Scientists finally acknowledge that they got their solar cycle predictions wrong, and that we are fast approaching the sun’s explosive peak
Roughly every 11 years, our home star cycles from a period of tranquility, known as solar minimum, to a peak of solar activity known as solar maximum
