These titanic plasma explosions, also known as solar flares, each unleashed the energy of a million hydrogen bombs. Parts of ...

Europe has just run its most extreme space weather simulation yet — a scenario so severe that no spacecraft was left ...

Earth is bracing for major disruptions to communications, GPS, and technology as a rare four-way solar storm is racing ...

Scientists warning regarding Earth could face severe disruption as rising solar activity. The storm that stripped Venus's ...

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

After a period of relative quiet on the surface of the sun, it is ramping up again in an era of high activity. It could affect your day-to-day life.

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

No communication or navigation, faulty electronics and collision risk. At ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, teams faced a ...

Space weather isn’t referring to rain clouds that float through the galaxy. Instead, it’s caused by massive explosions of ...

For a long stretch of time, scientists were under the impression that our star was slowly entering hibernation. Known as the "deep solar minimum," this period started in the 1980s and ended in 2008.

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