After a period of relative quiet on the surface of the sun, it is ramping up again in an era of high activity. It could affect your day-to-day life.

Those space tornadoes can still harm Earth’s electrical grids and digital systems. Recently, researchers including UM climate and space scientist Chip Manchester designed a completely new simulation ...

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

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 ...

Newly discovered multi-wavelength view of a stellar eruption on a young Sun-like star is changing how we think about life's ...

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.

Spirals of solar wind can spin off larger solar eruptions and disrupt Earth's magnetic field, yet they are too difficult to detect with our current single-location warning system, according to a new ...

And while today’s digitally interconnected world means that such an event would inevitably disrupt global systems, ...

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

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

The European Space Agency's upcoming Henon mission will be the first ever CubeSat to independently venture into deep space, ...