Last year, the Sun delivered an impressive spectacle with a series of powerful solar flares. These events led to the formation of a major geomagnetic storm that struck Earth on May 10, 2024. The ...

One of these ride-along NASA efforts is the Athena EPIC (Economical Payload Integration Cost) SmallSat, which will ...

A solar storm is projected to impact Earth this Saturday, potentially bringing with it a dazzling celestial light show – and a few crucial questions about our increasingly connected world. While ...

A new mission set to blast off for low-Earth orbit will study magnetic storms around the Earth and learn more about how they ...

Solar storms may subtly shift your heart rate by influencing heart rate variability and the autonomic nervous system, new research suggests.

Two NASA satellites rocketed into orbit from California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, commencing a $170 million ...

A cloud of hot, magnetized plasma — a coronal mass ejection — erupted from the Sun on Wednesday, July 23, headed off into ...

The same charged particles from the Sun’s atmosphere responsible for the northern lights can also damage Earth’s electrical and communications systems.

The sun has a bone to pick with Earth — and it’s not done yet. A colossal solar storm just zapped the daylight side of the planet, causing global blackouts and knocking out radio signals ...

Location signals beamed to Earth by GPS satellites were off by hundreds of feet during the Gannon Solar Storm in May last year, and the disruption lasted for up to two days in some U.S. regions, a ...

On May 10, 2024, one of the most severe solar storms in over two decades hit Earth. Solar storms happen when sudden, strong bursts of charged particles from the sun hit Earth's atmosphere.

The burgeoning space industry and the technologies society increasingly relies on—electric grids, aviation and ...