Earth-orbiting satellites are detecting the electromagnetic crackle of C-class flares in the region's magnetic canopy.

This activity could intensify if the region's growth continues apace.

Posted: 7:51:38 AM  

When a streak of fire blazed through the air above southern California, people could have been forgiven for thinking the Earth was under attack.

Thousands saw it from Phoenix in Arizona to Las Vegas and Los Angeles and local authorities were swamped with reports of ball of flame in the night sky.
One witness said: 'It was huge. It had a green glow in front of it and a white tail. It looked like green fireworks going across the sky.'

Posted: 7:36:34 AM  

They stretch from Syria to Saudi Arabia, can be seen from the air but not the ground, and are virtually unknown to the public. (THAT is you ...)

They are the Middle East's own version of the Nazca Lines - ancient "geolyphs," or drawings, that span deserts in southern Peru - and now, thanks to new satellite-mapping technologies, and an aerial photography program in Jordan, researchers are discovering more of them than ever before.
They number well into the thousands.

Posted: 7:23:58 AM  

It's a real-life Tatooine.
A spectacle made popular by the "Star Wars" saga - a planet with two suns - has now been confirmed in space for the first time, astronomers revealed.

Posted: 7:22:26 AM