From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped ...

New ESA simulations suggest that a solar storm on par with the 1859 Carrington Event could wreak havoc on Earth-orbiting ...

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

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

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

Those space tornadoes can still harm Earth’s electrical grids and digital systems. Recently, researchers including UM climate and space scientist Chip Manchester designed a completely new simulation ...

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

A solar storm could bring the northern lights to U.S. skies tonight—see if your state is on the aurora visibility map.

A new University of Michigan study offers one of the most detailed pictures so far of how violent sun storms spread across space — and occasionally, straight to our planet. With the help of ...

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

The aurora borealis may be visible across northern and central US regions this week due to heightened solar activity, experts say.

In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that autumn storm systems have dominated large swathes of Europe in October, driving a clear split between northern regions ...