Europe has just run its most extreme space weather simulation yet — a scenario so severe that no spacecraft was left ...

New ESA simulations suggest that a solar storm on par with the 1859 Carrington Event could wreak havoc on Earth-orbiting ...

CubeSat satellite activates after a powerful solar storm and discovers two new and mysterious radiation belts around Earth.

Solar flares, the sudden bursts of radiation that erupt from the Sun’s atmosphere, have become a topic of intense scrutiny ...

A coronal mass ejection on another star has been witnessed in its entirety for the first time, revealing that when these ...

The Carrington Event, as it was later called, revealed that the sun's environment could violently change. It also suggested ...

Space weather isn’t referring to rain clouds that float through the galaxy. Instead, it’s caused by massive explosions of particles that shoot out from the Sun.

A solar storm could bring the northern lights to U.S. skies tonight—see if your state is on the aurora visibility map.

No communication or navigation, faulty electronics and collision risk. At ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, teams faced a ...

The aurora borealis may be visible across northern and central US regions this week due to heightened solar activity, experts say.

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