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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

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

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 ...

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

At the turn of the 21 st century, astrophysicists theorized that the Sun was headed toward a deep solar minimum, but a new study says that the Sun’s activity actually reversed course around 2008. This ...