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

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

The recent solar storm that lit up the skies with breathtaking auroras didn't just create a vibrant spectacle; it also had tangible, down-to-earth impacts, especially for farmers. Solar storms occur ...

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

A solar storm occurs when the magnetic fields of the sun get twisted enough from its rotation that they snap. When this happens, they release massive amounts of energy into space. We are not in direct ...

Charged particles from the Sun fueled a strong geomagnetic storm from late Sunday into Monday, delivering impressive displays of Northern Lights as far south as the Midwest. On Sunday, NOAA’s Space ...

The event could affect power grids and GPS. Earth is in the midst of a moderate solar storm – but will it be strong enough to cause technology disruptions? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

A gigantic, backwards "letter S" recently appeared slap bang in the middle of the sun, moments before our home star unleashed a massive plume of plasma that later smashed into Earth, temporarily ...

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 new ...