Those space tornadoes can still harm Earth’s electrical grids and digital systems. Recently, researchers including UM climate ...

A new study published in The Astrophysical Journalis sounding the alarm about swirling solar wind structures that may pose an underestimated threat to Earth’s technological systems. Researchers have ...

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 ...

In a study published in October 2025 in the Astrophysical Journal, we modeled one of the sources of these geomagnetic storms: small, tornado-like vortices spun off of an ejection from the Sun. These ...

Four proposed sungazing spacecraft, working together, could help speed up space weather warnings by 40%, a new study suggests. A fleet of sentinel spacecraft, including one with a huge solar sail, ...

In this short NASA documentary, storm researcher Tim Samaras describes how satellite imaging can help predict tornadoes. Because it's unclear exactly how various weather conditions come together to ...

Tornadoes are complex and tough to predict but this short documentary from NASA is a good introduction to how they work. Researcher Tim Samaras explains how different weather systems collide across ...