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 ...

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.

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

And while today’s digitally interconnected world means that such an event would inevitably disrupt global systems, ...

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

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

At the turn of the 21 st century, astrophysicists theorized that the Sun was headed toward a deep solar minimum, but a new study says that the Sun’s activity actually reversed course around 2008. This ...

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