Space weather can be a silent threat, its effects often invisible until disaster strikes. Yet, as humanity grows more ...

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

Scientists say a train of CMEs could impact Earth's magnetic field Oct. 15–17, bringing a chance of northern lights across ...

The Sun has a weather pattern of its own, and one of the strangest is the solar rain that falls in its atmosphere during ...

The sun unleashed a strong X1.2 solar flare on Tuesday, May 13, within the region on the sun's western limb, as scientists continue to monitor the possibilities of coronal mass ejections, which can ...

Such eruptions from the Sun can disrupt satellite operations, radio communications, and power grids on Earth if directed ...

The sun unleashed another strong X-class solar flare overnight, stronger than the one that occurred on Tuesday — an X2.7, the strongest so far this year. X-class flares are the strongest and most ...

In the span of two days last week, the sun released two strong solar flares — meaning the solar system experienced its most powerful explosions which can cause some communications blackouts on Earth, ...

An M3-class solar flare that lasted about 3 hours created a massive coronal mass ejection. The Solar Dynamics Observatory ...

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 ...

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