Goddard News

Multiple smoke detectors sounded alarms inA NASA Goddard at about 9 p.m. Thursday-opening the ventilation system in a building with radioactive material, according to NASA Goddard News Chief Ed Campion.

Bryan Anthony Walls, the man charged April 20 with possessing counterfeit currency and who lived in the home where police found 15 guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition and marijuana, formerly worked in security at NASA Goddard.

Explosions on the sun regularly disrupt the magnetic envelope surrounding Earth, but that envelope, the magnetosphere, largely protects the surface of the planet itself from space weather -- with one exception.