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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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