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

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

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

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

Threats from space aren't always obvious, but statistically, it's only a matter of time before one of them happens. One of ...

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 SpaceX rocket lifted off Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, carrying NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP.

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

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

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