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

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 powerful solar storm recently struck Venus, stripping its atmosphere due to the lack of a magnetic field. While Earth was ...

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

From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped ...

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