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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

The sun is a dynamic part of our solar system, and it throws plasma and radiation out into space regularly. But not all of ...

For the insurance sector, this evolving pattern of risk means that premiums, risk modelling and catastrophe planning will all ...

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