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

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

Sunspot AR3256 erupted with an X1.2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple ...

Sunspot activity increases on November 1, 2025, as new regions emerge on the Sun. Solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and geomagnetic conditions are monitored by NASA/SDO and EarthSky.

Normally only visible much closer to the north pole, the Northern Lights have been seen as far south as New Mexico in recent ...

Explore the Indian astro community's vision for advancing solar physics and space weather research through innovative ...

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

No spacecraft would be safe in the wake of a solar storm like the 1859 Carrington Event. Europe has just run its most extreme ...

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

Such eruptions from the Sun can disrupt satellite operations, radio communications, and power grids on Earth if directed toward the planet.

The European Space Agency has conducted its most severe solar storm simulation yet, warning that a Carrington-level ...