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.

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

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 ...

The sun’s activity is causing a stir in the cosmos, and it’s not just astronomers who are taking notice. Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites, part of a project aimed at providing global broadband coverage ...

WASHINGTON — A recent cluster of flare-ups on the sun's surface is sending super-charged particles at the earth, meaning that skywatchers in North America could be treated to a display of the northern ...

A new University of Michigan study offers one of the most detailed pictures so far of how violent sun storms spread across space — and occasionally, straight to our planet. With the help of ...

(NEXSTAR) – A strong geomagnetic storm that has been impacting Earth since Monday has prompted national forecasters to warn officials “to mitigate any possible impacts.” NOAA’s Space Weather ...

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